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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2b778ceb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.34
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10Major new features:
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12 [Add new features here]
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14Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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16 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
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18Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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20 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
21
22Security related changes:
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24 [Add security related changes here]
25
26The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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28 [The release manager will add the list generated by
29 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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32Version 2.33
33
34Major new features:
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36* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _SC_SIGSTKSZ_SOURCE or
37 _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
38 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
39 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ).
40
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41* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
42 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
43 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
44
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45* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
46 to change argv[0] string.
47
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48* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
49 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
50 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
51 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
52 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
53 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
54 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
55 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
56 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
57
58* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
59 information and library search path diagnostics.
60
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61* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
62 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
63 larger than fit in an integer.
64
96203980 65* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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67* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
68 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
69
70 - rv32imac ilp32
71 - rv32imafdc ilp32
72 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
73
74 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
75 2.28.
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77* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
78 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
79 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
80 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
81 fortification.
82
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83Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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85* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
86 mallinfo2 instead.
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88* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
89 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
90 Instead, the default implementation is used.
91
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92* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
93 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
94 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
95 prlimit.
96
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97* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
98 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
99 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
100
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101* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
102 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
103 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
104 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
105 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
106 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
107
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108* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
109 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
110 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
111 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
112 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
113 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
114 loaded.
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116Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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118* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
119 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
120 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
121 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
122 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
123 perform any adjustments.
124
125* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
126 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
127 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
128 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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130* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
131
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132Security related changes:
133
d7f4f3f5 134 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
934c48a0 135 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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136 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
137 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
138 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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140 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
141 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
142 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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144 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
145 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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147 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
148 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
149
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150The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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152 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
153 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
154 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
155 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
156 AT_EACCESS
157 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
158 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
159 "haswell" platform subdirectory
160 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
161 with GCC
162 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
163 stack-protector=all
164 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
165 cases
166 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
167 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
168 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
169 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
170 changing gnuc version
171 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
172 incorrect
173 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
174 bits
175 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
176 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
177 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
178 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
179 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
180 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
181 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
182 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
183 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
184 too much stack space
185 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
186 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
187 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
188 with optimization.
189 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
190 anymore
191 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
192 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
193 non-FMA4 system
194 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
195 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
196 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
197 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
198 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
199 getaddrinfo
200 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
201 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
202 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
203 fault
204 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
205 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
206 at the end of a memory mapping
207 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
208 by the caller to the kernel
209 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
210 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
211 declarations for __sigsetjmp
212 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
213 monotonic clocks
214 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
215 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
216 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
217 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
218 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
219 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
220 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
221 one element
222 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
223 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
224 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
225 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
226 lazy bound
227 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
228 PI mutexes
229 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
230 not safe
231 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
232 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
233 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
234 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
235 platform
236 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
237 startup code
238 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
239 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
240 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
241 protected
242 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
243 only since 2.31
244 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
245 locked
246 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
247 aligned
248 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
249 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
250 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
251 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
252 detection logic
253 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
254 pclose(3))
255 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
256 setup
257 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
258 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
259 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
260 work
261 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
262 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
263 [27177] dynamic-link:
264 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
265 work
266 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
267 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
268 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
269 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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272Version 2.32
273
274Major new features:
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276* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
277 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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278 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
279
280* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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282* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
283 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
284 Three ABIs are supported:
285
286 - arc-linux-gnu
287 - arc-linux-gnuhf
288 - arceb-linux-gnu
289
4d3a77c7 290 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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291 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
292
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293* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
294 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
295
051be01f 296* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 297 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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298 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
299 this option.
300
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301* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
302 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
303 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
304
4d3a77c7 305* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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306 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
307 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
308
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309* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
310 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
311 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
312 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
313 libpthread.
314
bfe05aa2 315* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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316 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
317 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
318 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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319 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
320 NULL for an invalid signal number.
321
322 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
323 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
324
325081b9 325* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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326 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
327 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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328 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
329 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
330 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
331
332 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
333 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
334
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335* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
336 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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337 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
338 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
339 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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340 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
341 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
342 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
343 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
344 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
345 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
346 BTI compatible.
347
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348Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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350* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
351 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
352 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
353 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
354 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
355 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
356 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
357
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358* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
359 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
360 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
361 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
362 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
363 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
364 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 365 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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366 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
367
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368* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
369 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
370 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
371 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
372 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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374* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
375 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
376 was not declared in any header file.
377
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378* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
379 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
380 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
381 sigaction functions instead.
382
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383* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
384 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
385
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386* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
387 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
388 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
389 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
390 strsignal instead.
391
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392* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
393 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 394 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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395 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
396 strerror or strerror_r instead.
397
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398* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
399 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
400 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
401 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
402
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403* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
404 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
405 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
406 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
407 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
408 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
409 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
410
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411* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
412 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
413 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
414 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
415 flavor of secure RPC.)
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417* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
418 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
419 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
420 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
421 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
422 object, to enable the hooks.
423
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424* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
425 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
426 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
427 LDAP.
428
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429Changes to build and runtime requirements:
430
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431* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
432 long double redirects.
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434Security related changes:
435
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436 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
437 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
438 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
439
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440 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
441 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
442 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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444 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
445 expanding ~user has been fixed.
446
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447 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
448 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
449 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
450 TALOS-2020-1019).
451
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452The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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454 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
455 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
456 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
457 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
458 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
459 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
460 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
461 filtee has constructor
462 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
463 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
464 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
465 character entities for infinity & pi
466 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
467 segfaults in applications
468 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
469 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
470 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
471 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
472 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
473 function with -mlong-double-64
474 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
475 binding
476 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
477 ld.so.cache
478 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
479 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
480 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
481 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
482 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
483 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
484 linker
485 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
486 dynamically loaded dsos
487 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
488 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
489 access
490 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
491 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
492 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
493 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
494 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
495 stale configuration forever
496 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
497 (CVE-2020-10029)
498 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
499 defaults to PIE
500 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
501 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
502 (CVE-2020-6096)
503 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
504 on 32 bit and old kernel
505 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
506 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
507 Occitan
508 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
509 amount of sigset_t bytes
510 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
511 strings
512 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
513 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
514 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
515 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
516 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
517 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
518 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
519 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
520 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
521 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
522 size_t
523 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
524 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
525 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
526 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
527 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
528 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
529 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
530 cpu=power9
531 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
532 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
533 segfault
534 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
535 exiting detached thread
536 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
537 for x32
538 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
539 ERANGE
540 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
541 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
542 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
543 dependencies in audit mode
544 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
545 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
546 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
547 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
548 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
549 input
550 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
551 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
552 preserve r2
553 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
554 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
555 variables
556 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
557 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
558 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
559 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
560 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
561 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
562 corruption in memset
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567Major new features:
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570 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
571 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
572 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
573 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
574 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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576* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
577 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
578 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
579 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
580
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584
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585* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
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587* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
588 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
589 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
590 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
591 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
592 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
593 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
594 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
595
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597
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598* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
599 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
600 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
601 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
602 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
603 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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607 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
608
609* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
610 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
611 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
612 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
613
614* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
615 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
616 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
617 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
618 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
619 made this no longer practical.
620
621 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
622 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
623 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
624 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
625 release.)
626
627 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
628 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
629 with the current time, use the localtime function.
630
631 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
632 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
633 using clock_gettime instead.
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636 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
637 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
638 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
639 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
640
641 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
642 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
643 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
644 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
645
646 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
647 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
648 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
649 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
650 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
651 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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654 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
655 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
656 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
657 offset API.
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659* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
660 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
661 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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663 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
664 configurations.
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667 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
668 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
669 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
670 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
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673 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
674 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
675 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
676 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
677 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
678 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
679 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
680
681 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
682 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
683
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685 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
686 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
687 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
688 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
689 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
690
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692
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695 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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698 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
699 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
700
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702
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703 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
704 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
705
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706 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
707 environment variable during program execution after a security
708 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
709 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
710 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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712The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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714 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
715 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
716 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
717 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
718 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
719 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
720 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
721 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
722 linking failure
723 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
724 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
725 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
726 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
727 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
728 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
729 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
730 constructors/destructors is not fatal
731 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
732 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
733 7408-2005
734 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
735 with localedef
736 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
737 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
738 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
739 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
740 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
741 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
742 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
743 utmp entries
744 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
745 ABSOLUTE ABI
746 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
747 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
748 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
749 (stringop-overflow error)
750 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
751 functions other can lead to crashes
752 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
753 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
754 unconditionally
755 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
756 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
757 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
758 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
759 still can fail with an error
760 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
761 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
762 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
763 initialized correctly
764 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
765 -frewrite-includes
766 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
767 value to an unsigned
768 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
769 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
770 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
771 protection
772 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
773 ifunc variant.
774 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
775 al. for Clang++
776 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
777 (Slovenian)
778 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
779 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
780 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
781 with -std=c11
782 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
783 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
784 part
785 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
786 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
787 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
788 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
789 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
790 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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794
795Major new features:
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797* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
798 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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799 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
800
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801* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
802 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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805 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
806 to the callback function.
807
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810* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
811 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
812 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
813
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815
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816* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
817 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
818 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
819 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
820 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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823 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
824 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
825 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
826 link time reference, is gone.
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829 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
830 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
831 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
832 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
833 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
834 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
835 the clock choice at initialization time).
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838 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
839 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
840
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842
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844 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
845 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
846 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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848 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
849 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
850 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
851 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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854 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
855 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
856 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
857 since glibc 2.17.
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859* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
860 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
861
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862* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
863 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
864
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865* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
866 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
867
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869 BIND_NOW flag.
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872 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
873 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
874
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875* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
876 header have been removed.
877
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878* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
879 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
880 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
881 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
882
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886
887 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
888 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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890Security related changes:
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893 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
894 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
895 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
896 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
897 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
898 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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900 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
901 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
902 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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906 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
907 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
908 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
909 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
910 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
911 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
912 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
913 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
914 invalid input drops valid char
915 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
916 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
917 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
918 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
919 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
920 malloc.h.
921 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
922 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
923 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
924 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
925 functions
926 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
927 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
928 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
929 for long double = double
930 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
931 long double = double
932 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
933 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
934 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
935 long timeouts
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937 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
938 checking for NULL.
939 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
940 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
941 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
942 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
943 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
944 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
945 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
946 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
947 not the default "nor"
948 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
949 false positives, change to modern flexible array
950 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
951 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
952 compiler barriers.
953 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
954 unnecessary librt dependencies
955 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
956 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
957 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
958 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
959 unsorted chunk
960 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
961 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
962 to R_SPARC_H44
963 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
964 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
965 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
966 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
967 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
968 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
969 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
970 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
971 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
972 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
973 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
974 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
975 was not used
976 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
977 tests
978 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
979 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
980 time_t changes
981 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
982 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
983 kernels and break testing
984 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
985 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
986 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
987 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
988 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
989 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
990 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
991 -O3 -march=skylake
992 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
993 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
994 crash
995 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
996 linked glibc
997 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
998 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
999 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1000 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1001 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1002 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1003 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1004 always implemented in the same library
1005 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1006 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1007 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1008 testroot
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1012
1013Major new features:
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1016 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1018* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1019 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1020 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1021 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1022 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1023 configured location.
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1028 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1031 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1032 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1033 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1034 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1035 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1036 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1037 process actually does not use HTM).
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1040 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1041 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1042 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1043 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1044 of the same name.
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1047 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1048 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1052* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1053 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1054 supported:
1055 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1056 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1059 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1060 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1061 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1062 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1063 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1064 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1067 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1068 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1073 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1076 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1077 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1078 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1080* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1081 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1082 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1083 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1084 structures.
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1087 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1088 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1089 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1090 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1091 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1092
1093 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1094 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1095 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1096 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1097 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1098
1099 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1100 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1101 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1104
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1108 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1109
1110 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1111 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1115 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1116 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1117 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1120 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1121 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1122 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1123 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1125 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1126 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1127 or command injection issues in applications.
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1131 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1132 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1133 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1134 thousands
1135 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1136 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1137 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1138 --param options)
1139 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1140 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1141 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1142 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1143 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1144 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1145 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1146 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1147 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1148 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1149 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1150 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1151 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1152 pointer argument is non-NULL
1153 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1154 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1155 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1156 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1157 multithreads call popen
1158 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1159 and pthread_create fails.
1160 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1161 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1162 constructor
1163 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1164 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1165 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1166 source tree
1167 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1168 float
1169 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1170 one error
1171 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1172 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1173 linker
1174 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1175 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1176 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1177 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1178 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1179 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1180 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1181 filesystems
1182 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1183 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1184 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1185 functions
1186 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1187 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1188 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1189 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1190 have wrong type
1191 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1192 wrong type
1193 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1194 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1195 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1196 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1197 threads
1198 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1199 start.S
1200 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1201 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1202 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1203 powerpc64le
1204 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1205 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1206 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1207 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1208 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1209 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1210 strftime
1211 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1212 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1213 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1214 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1215 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1216 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1217 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1218 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1219 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1220 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1221 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1222 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1223 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1224 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1225 tcache size
1226 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1227 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1228 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1229 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1230 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1231 (CVE-2018-19591)
1232 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1233 nearest rounding mode
1234 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1235 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1236 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1237 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1238 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1239 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1240 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1241 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1242 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1243 error
1244 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1245 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1246 using GCC 8
1247 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1248 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1249 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1250 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1251 ppc64le
1252 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1253 expected result
1254 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1255 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1256 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1257 sigaltstack
1258 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1259 answers will be rejected)
1260 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1264
1265Major new features:
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1268 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1269 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1270 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1271 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1272 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1273 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1274 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1275 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1276 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1277 archive or binary locales.
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1280 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1281 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1282 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1283 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1284 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1285 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1286 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1288 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1289 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1290 validated for i686.
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1293 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1294 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1295 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1296 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1297 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1299* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1300 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1301 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1304 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1305
1306 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1307 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1310 fMxsubfNx functions.
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1313 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1316 fMxdivfNx functions.
1317
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df467d22 1319 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1320 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1322 and Kashubian.
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1331 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1332 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1333 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1334 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1335 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1336 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1337 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1340 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1341 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1342 the fstatat64 function.
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1344* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1345 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1346 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1347 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1348 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1349 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1350 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1351 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1352 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1355 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1356 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1357 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1358 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1359 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1360 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1361 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1362 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1363 results in a load failure now.
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1366 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1367 <threads.h>:
1368
1369 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1370 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1371
1372 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1373 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1374
1375 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1376
1377 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1378 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1379
1380 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1381
1382 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1387 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1388 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1389
1390* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1391 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1392 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1393 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1394 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1395 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1396
1397* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1398 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1399 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1400 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1401 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1402 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1403 (Bug #1190.)
1404
1405* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1406 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1407 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1408 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1409 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1410 further explanation.
1411
1412 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1413 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1414 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1416* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1417
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1418* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1419 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1420 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1421
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1422* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1423 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1424 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1425 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1426
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1427* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1428 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1429 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1430 for this function instead.
1431
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1432* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1433 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1434 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1435
1436* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1437 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1438 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1439 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1441* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1442 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1443 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1444 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1445 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1447* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1448 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1449 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1450 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1451 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1452 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1453 such as libgcrypt.
1454
1455* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1456 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1457 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1458 enabled.
1459
1460* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1461 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1462 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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1464* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1465 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1466 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1467 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1468 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1469 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1470
1471 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1472 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1473 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1474 behavior in a future release.
1475
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1477
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1480Security related changes:
1481
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1482 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1483 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1484 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1485 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1487 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1488 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1489
1490 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1491 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1492 Izbyshev.
1493
1494 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1495 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1496 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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1500 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1501 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1502 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1503 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1504 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1505 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1506 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1507 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1508 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1509 14651
1510 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1511 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1512 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1513 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1514 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1515 conversion is given
1516 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1517 date
1518 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1519 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1520 scope with -O1 and higher
1521 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1522 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1523 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1524 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1525 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1526 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1527 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1528 horrible machine code)
1529 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1530 last constant.
1531 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1532 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1533 symbols
1534 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1535 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1536 defined
1537 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1538 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1539 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1540 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1541 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1542 fpscr.c'
1543 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1544 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1545 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1546 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1547 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1548 the base address
1549 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1550 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1551 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1552 open_verify
1553 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1554 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1555 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1556 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1557 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1558 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1559 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1560 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1561 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1562 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1563 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1564 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1565 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1566 dlopen
1567 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1568 AT_SECURE=1
1569 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1570 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1571 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1572 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1573 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1574 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1575 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1576 for Spanish with CLDR
1577 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1578 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1579 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1580 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1581 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1582 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1583 es_BO
1584 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1585 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1586 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1587 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1588 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1589 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1590 dlopen failures
1591 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1592 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1593 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1594 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1595 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1596 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1597 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1598 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1599 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1600 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1601 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1602 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1603 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1604 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1605 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1606 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1607 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1608 makecontext
1609 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1610 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1611 required
1612 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1613 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1614 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1615 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1616 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1617 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1618 disabled
1619 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1620 failure
1621 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1622 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1623 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1624 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1625 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1626 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1627 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1628 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1629 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1630 and libc build with -Os)
1631 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1632 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1633 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1634 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1635 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1636 that changes /etc/passwd
1637 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1638 (CVE-2018-11237)
1639 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1640 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1641 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1642 posix/regcomp.c
1643 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1644 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1645 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1646 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1647 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1648 AT_SECURE
1649 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1650 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1651 parser.c
1652 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1653 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1654 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1655 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1656 directed rounding
1657 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1658 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1659 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1660 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1661 lookup
1662 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1663 interposition
1664 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1665 DSO boundaries.
1666 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1667 <linux/time.h>
1668 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1669 checking
1670 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1671 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1672 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1673 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1674 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1675 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1676 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1677 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1678 processors
1679 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1682Version 2.27
1683
1684Major new features:
1685
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1686* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1687 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 1688 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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1689 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1690 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1691 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1692 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1693 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1694 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 1696* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1697 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1698 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1700* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1701
4cf82d23 1702* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1704* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1705 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1706 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1707 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1708 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1709 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1710 from a security and performance perspective.
1711
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1712* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1713 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1714 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1715 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1716
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1718 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1719 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1720 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1721 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1722
a23aa5b7 1723* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1725 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1726 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1727 _Float128.
1728
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1729* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1730 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1731 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 1732
4bab0224 1733* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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1735* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1736 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1737 pkey_get.
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1739* The copy_file_range function was added.
1740
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1741* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1742
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1743* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1744 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1745 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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1748 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1749 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1750 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1751 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1752 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1753 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1754
1755 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1756 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1757 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1758 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1759 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1760 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1761 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1762
1763 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1764 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1765 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1766 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1767 respectively.
1768
1769 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1770 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1771 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1772 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1774 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1775 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1776 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1777
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1779 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1780 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1783 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1784 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1785
1786 - rv64imac lp64
1787 - rv64imafdc lp64
1788 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1789
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1791
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1793 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1794 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1796 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1797 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1798 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1799 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1800 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1801 fix this.
1802
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1803* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1804 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1805 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1806
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1807* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1808 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1809 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1810 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1811 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1812 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1813 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1814 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1815 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1816 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1817 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1818 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1819 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1820 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1821 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1822 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1823 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1824 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1825 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1826 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1827 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1828 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1829 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1830 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1831 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1832 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1833
60e2846e
DL
1834* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1835 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 1836
813378e9
JM
1837* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1838 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1839 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1840 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1841 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1842 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1843 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1844
5a80d39d
JM
1845* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1846 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1847 exp10l for these functions instead.
1848
4fa9b3bf
JM
1849* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1850 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1851 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1852
644d3857
JM
1853* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1854 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1855 ignored.
1856
8df5d347
JM
1857* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1858 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1859 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1860 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1861
c0a25aa9
FW
1862* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1863 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1864
34eb4157
FW
1865* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1866 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1867
754034c4
JM
1868* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1869 programs.
1870
ed95f611
AZ
1871* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1872
48a8f832
ZW
1873* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1874 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1875 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1876 instead.
1877
1878 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1879 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1880 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1881 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1882 use, but predates the bits convention.
1883
00cdcf5a
SP
1884Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1885
1faaf703
JB
1886* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1887 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
1888
1889Security related changes:
1890
403143e1
FW
1891 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1892 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1893 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1894 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1895 script.)
00cdcf5a 1896
822f523b
FW
1897 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1898 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1899 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1900 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 1901
914c9994
FW
1902 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1903 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1904 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1905 of service.
1906
15e84c63
AJ
1907 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1908 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
1909 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1910
37ac8e63
FW
1911 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1912 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1913 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1914 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1915
8a0b17e4
FW
1916 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1917 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1918 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1919 Qualys.
1920
3ff3dfa5
FW
1921 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1922 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1923 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1924 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1925 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1926
3e3c904d
AJ
1927 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1928 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1929 current directory.
1930
52a713fd
DL
1931 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1932 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1933 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1934
4590634f
FW
1935 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1936 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1937 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1938
71aa429b
FW
1939 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1940 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1941 small, instead of NULL.
1942
00cdcf5a
SP
1943The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1944
242cbc90
DL
1945 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1946 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1947 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1948 locale
1949 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1950 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1951 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1952 cases
1953 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1954 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1955 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1956 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1957 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1958 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1959 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1960 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1961 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1962 "Bangla"
1963 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1964 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1965 width Latin characters
1966 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1967 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1968 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1969 letters
1970 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1971 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1972 (CVE-2009-5064)
1973 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1974 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1975 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1976 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1977 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1978 if malloc succeeded
1979 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1980 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1981 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1982 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1983 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1984 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1985 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1986 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1987 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1988 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1989 U+309A
1990 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1991 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1992 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1993 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1994 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1995 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1996 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1997 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1998 for Nicaragua
1999 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2000 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2001 are not found.
2002 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2003 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2004 access
2005 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2006 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2007 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2008 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2009 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2010 __regcall calling convention
2011 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2012 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2013 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2014 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2015 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2016 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2017 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2018 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2019 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2020 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2021 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2022 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2023 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2024 locale
2025 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2026 protector=all
2027 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2028 wcwidth
2029 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2030 consistency check failures
2031 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2032 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2033 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2034 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2035 PIE
2036 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2037 locales
2038 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2039 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2040 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2041 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2042 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2043 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2044 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2045 on memory allocation failure
2046 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2047 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2048 the suspect)
2049 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2050 default (i386)
2051 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2052 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2053 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2054 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2055 instead of EAI_NODATA
2056 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2057 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2058 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2059 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2060 implementation
2061 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2062 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2063 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2064 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2065 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2066 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2067 allocation in syscall loops)
2068 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2069 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2070 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2071 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2072 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2073 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2074 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2075 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2076 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2077 occur with -O3
2078 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2079 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2080 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2081 amounts)
2082 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2083 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2084 niu_NZ
2085 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2086 checks
2087 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2088 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2089 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2090 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2091 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2092 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2093 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2094 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2095 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2096 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2097 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2098 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2099 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2100 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2101 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2102 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2103 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2104 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2105 parsing after OOM
2106 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2107 object
2108 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2109 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2110 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2111 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2112 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2113 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2114 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2115 ppc64le
2116 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2117 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2118 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2119 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2120 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2121 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2122 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2123 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2124 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2125 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2126 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2127 math_force_eval
2128 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2129 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2130 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2131 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2132 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2133 the svid compat wrapper
2134 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2135 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2136 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2137 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2138 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2139 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2140 --verbose.
2141 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2142 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2143 to 2.26
2144 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2145 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2146 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2147 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2148 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2149 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2150 (CVE-2017-15804)
2151 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2152 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2153 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2154 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2155 failure."
2156 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2157 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2158 -m32
2159 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2160 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2161 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2162 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2163 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2164 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2165 inside the ASCII printable range
2166 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2167 -mlong-double-64
2168 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2169 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2170 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2171 Internet
2172 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2173 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2174 backslash
2175 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2176 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2177 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2178 heaps in an arena
2179 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2180 networking interface
2181 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2182 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2183 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2184 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2185 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2186 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2187 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2188 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2189 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2190 order
2191 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2192 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2193 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2194 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2195 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2196 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2197 same as for Croatian
2198 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2199 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2200 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2201 for initial thread"
2202 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2203 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2204 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2205 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2206 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2207 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2208 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2209 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2210 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2211 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2212 modified in case of success
2213 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2214 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2215 success
2216 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2217 stack-protector=all
2218 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2219 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2220 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2221 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2222 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2223 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2224 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2225 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2226 adding it on top
2227 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2228 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2229 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2230 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2231 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2232 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2233 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2234 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2235 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2236 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2237 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2238 elision and tunables
2239 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2240 "invalid" exception
2241 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2242 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2243 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2244 exception
2245 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2246 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2247 power4
2248 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2249 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2250 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2251 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2252 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2253 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2254 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2255 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2256 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2259Version 2.26
2260
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2261Major new features:
2262
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2263* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2264 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2265 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2266 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2267 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2268 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2269 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2270
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2271* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2272 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2273 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2274 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2275 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2276 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2277 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2279* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2280 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2281 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2282
2b2ccd0c 2283* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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2285 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2286 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2287 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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2289 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2290 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2291 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2292 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2293 object are still limited to six search domains.
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2295 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2296 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2297 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2299* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2300 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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2302* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2303 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2304 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2305 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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2307* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2308 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2309 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2310 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2312* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2313 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2314 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2315 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2317* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2318 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2319 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2320
2b2ccd0c 2321* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2322 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2323 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2324 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2325
2b2ccd0c 2326 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2327 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2328 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2329 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2330 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2331
2332 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2333 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2334 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2335 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2336 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2337 interfaces should be used instead.
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2339Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2340
2341* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2342 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2343 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2344 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2345 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2346 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2347 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2348 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2349
2350* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2351 removed.
2352
2353* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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2355 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2356 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2357
2358* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2359 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2360 default.
2361
2362 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2363 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2364 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2365 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2366 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2367
2368 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2369 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2370 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2371 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2372
2373* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2374 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2375 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2376 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2377
2378* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2379 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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2381* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2382 exported by accident.
2383
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2384* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2385 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2386 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2387
2388* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2389 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2390 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2391 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2392
2393* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2394
2395* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2396
2397* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2398 free instead.
2399
2400* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2401 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2402
2403* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2404 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2405
2406* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2407 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2408 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2409 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2410 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2411 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2412 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2413 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2414
2415* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2416 synced with the kernel:
2417
2418 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2419 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2420
2421 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2422 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2423 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2424
2425 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2426 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2427
2428Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2429
2430* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2431 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2432 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2433
7e368000 2434* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2436* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2437 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2439 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2440 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2441 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2442 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2443 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2445Security related changes:
2446
e14a2772 2447* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2448 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2449
2450* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2451 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2452
2453* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2454 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2455 (CVE-2010-3192).
2456
2457* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2458 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2460The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2461
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2462 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2463 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2464 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2465 fields
2466 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2467 (CVE-2010-3192)
2468 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2469 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2470 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2471 ld.bfd is available
2472 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2473 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2474 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2475 x86 and other generic code
2476 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2477 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2478 incorrect
2479 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2480 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2481 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2482 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2483 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2484 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2485 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2486 resolver
2487 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2488 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2489 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2490 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2491 chillu characters
2492 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2493 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2494 receiving data
2495 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2496 whitespace
2497 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2498 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2499 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2500 for Peru
2501 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2502 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2503 failures consistently
2504 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2505 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2506 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2507 frame-pointer on i386
2508 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2509 register
2510 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2511 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2512 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2513 generic c code is used
2514 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2515 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2516 around 4000
2517 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2518 (CVE-2017-12133)
2519 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2520 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2521 with -lieee
2522 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2523 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2524 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2525 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2526 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2527 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2528 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2529 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2530 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2531 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2532 remove()
2533 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2534 checked for errors.
2535 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2536 new posix_spawn implementation
2537 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2538 leads to lower CPU frequency
2539 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2540 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2541 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2542 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2543 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2544 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2545 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2546 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2547 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2548 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2549 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2550 not support gethostbyname4_r
2551 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2552 switching
2553 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2554 arenas
2555 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2556 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2557 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2558 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2559 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2560 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2561 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2562 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2563 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2564 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2565 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2566 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2567 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2568 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2569 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2570 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2571 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2572 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2573 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2574 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2575 retry value
2576 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2577 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2578 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2579 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2580 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2581 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2582 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2583 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2584 [21537] libc:
2585 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2586 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2587 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2588 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2589 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2590 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2591 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2592 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2593 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2594 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2595 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2596 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2597 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2598 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2599 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2600 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2601 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2602 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2603 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2604 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2605 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2606 issue on x86-64
2607 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2608 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2609 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2610 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2611 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2612 construction
2613 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2614 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2615 between_2_3
2616 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2617 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2618 conditions
2619 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2620 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2621 Hindi Locale
2622 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2623 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2624 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2625 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2626 locale
2627 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2628 leading to relocation crash
2629 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2630 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2631 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2632 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2633 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2634 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2635 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2636 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2637 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2638 locale
2639 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2640 locale
2641 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2642 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2643 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2644 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2645 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2646 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2647 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2648 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2649 strings
2650 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2651 protector=all
2652 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2653 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2654 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2655 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2656 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2657 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2658 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2659 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2660 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2661 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2662 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2663 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2664 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2665 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2666 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2667 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2668 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2669 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2670 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2671 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2672 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2673 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2674 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2675 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2676 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2677 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2678 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2679 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2680 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2681 with unicode 9.0
2682 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2683 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2684 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2685 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2686 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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2689Version 2.25
2690
48789000
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2691* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2692 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2693 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2694 Library.
e720d3d9 2695
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2696* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2697 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2698 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
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2699 the GNU C Library.
2700
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2701* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2702 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2703 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2704 the GNU C Library.
2705
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2706* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2707 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2708 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2709 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2710 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2711 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2712 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2713 will not.
2714
2715 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2716 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2717 many years.
2718
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2719* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2720 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2721 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2722
2723 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2724 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2725 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2726 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2727 problem.
2728
ec94343f 2729* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2730 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2731 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 2732
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2733* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2734 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2735 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2736 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2737 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2738 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2739 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2740 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2741 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2742 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2743 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2744 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 2745
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2746* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2747
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2748 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2749
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2750 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2751 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2752 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2753
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2754 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2755 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2756
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2757 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2758 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2759
1e7c8fcc
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2760 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2761
29cb9293 2762 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2763
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2764 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2765 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2766
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2767 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2768
eb3c12c7 2769 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2770 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2771
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2772* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2773 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2774
cecbc796
NA
2775* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2776 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2777 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2778
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2779* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2780 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2781 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2782 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2783 effects of the memory clear).
2784
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2785* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2786 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2787 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2788 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2789
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2790* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2791 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2792 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2793 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2794 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2795 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2796
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2797* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2798 have been added.
2799
705a79f8
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2800* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2801 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2802 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2803 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2804 as large as several megabytes.
2805
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2806* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2807 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2808 been removed.
2809
e863cce5
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2810* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2811 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2812 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2813 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2814 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2815 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2816 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2817
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2818* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2819 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2820 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2821 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2822
099191b1 2823* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
2824 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2825 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2826 Internet.
2827
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2828* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2829 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2830 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2831
b76e0659
FW
2832* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2833 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2834 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2835 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2836
3a2a1d2c
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2837* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2838 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2839 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2840 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2841 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2842
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FW
2843* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2844 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2845 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2846 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2847 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2848
6815a33d
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2849* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2850 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2851 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2852 did not reflect that.
2853
022dfdce
SL
2854* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2855 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2856 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2857 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2858 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2859 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2860 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2861 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2862
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2863* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2864 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2865 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2866 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2867
7715d3ab
SP
2868* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2869 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2870 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2871 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2872
0cea3587
SP
2873* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2874 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2875 guarantees.
2876
2877* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2878 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2879 make state changes.
2880
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2881Security related changes:
2882
fc82b0a2 2883* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2884 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2885 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2886 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2887 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2888
fc82b0a2
FW
2889* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2890 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2891 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2892 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2893 (CVE-2015-5180)
2894
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2895The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2896
fdb724f9 2897 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
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2898 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2899 protector-all
2900 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2901 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2902 before it started waiting
2903 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2904 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2905 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2906 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2907 wrong type
2908 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2909 library linked with pthread
2910 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2911 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2912 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2913 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2914 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2915 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2916 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2917 when it shouldnt
2918 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2919 not
2920 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2921 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2922 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2923 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2924 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2925 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2926 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2927 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2928 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2929 termination
2930 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2931 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2932 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2933 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2934 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2935 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2936 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2937 causes a segmentation fault
2938 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2939 linking
2940 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2941 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2942 uninitialized GOT
2943 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2944 versions
2945 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2946 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2947 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2948 is always true.
2949 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2950 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2951 modes
2952 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2953 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2954 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2955 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2956 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2957 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2958 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2959 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2960 libpthread.a
2961 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2962 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2963 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2964 _res_hconf
2965 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2966 information.
2967 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2968 penalty
2969 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2970 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2971 cause transition penalty
2972 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2973 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2974 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2975 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2976 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2977 mcount.oS)
2978 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2979 Checking
2980 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2981 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2982 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2983 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2984 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2985 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2986 multi-arch
2987 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2988 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2989 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2990 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2991 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2992 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2993 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2994 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2995 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2996 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2997 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2998 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2999 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3000 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3001 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3002 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3003 glibc
3004 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3005 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3006 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3007 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3008 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3009 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3010 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3011 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3012 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3013 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3014 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3015 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3016 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3017 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3018 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3019 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3020 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3021 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3022 RES_USE_INET6
3023 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3024 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3025 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3026 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3027 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3028 wrong condition
3029 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3030 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3031 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3032 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3033 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3034 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3035 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3036 clang
3037 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3038 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3039 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3040 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3041 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 3042\f
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3043Version 2.24
3044
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3045* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3046 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3047 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3048 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3049 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3050 architectures.
3051
b6ebba70
MF
3052* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3053 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3054 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3055
7584a3f9
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3056* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3057 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3058
b49ab5f4
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3059* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3060 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3061 instead of “union wait”.
3062
ced8f893
SG
3063* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3064 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3065 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3066 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3067 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3068 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3069 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3070
2ba3cfa1
FW
3071* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3072 API.
3073
b7a9b7b0
MF
3074* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3075 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3076 drop it.
6a54bcda 3077
41a359e2
RS
3078* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3079 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3080 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3081 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3082 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3083 extensions.
3084
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3085Security related changes:
3086
f5b3338d
FW
3087* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3088 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3089 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3090
4ab2ab03
FW
3091* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3092 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3093 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3094 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3095
5171f307
FW
3096* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3097 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3098 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3099
bc779a1a
FW
3100* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3101 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3102 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3103
fab38231
FW
3104* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3105 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3106 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3107 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3108
11fca961
AZ
3109The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3110
3c4f81ec
CD
3111 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3112 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3113 of MS-DOS.
3114 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3115 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3116 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3117 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3118 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3119 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3120 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3121 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3122 CLDR data
3123 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3124 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3125 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3126 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3127 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3128 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3129 romanisation
3130 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3131 and +/-
3132 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3133 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3134 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3135 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3136 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3137 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3138 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3139 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3140 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3141 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3142 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3143 all locales
3144 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3145 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3146 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3147 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3148 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3149 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3150 execute
3151 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3152 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3153 -Wsystem-headers
3154 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3155 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3156 Romanian locale data
3157 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3158 symbol
3159 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3160 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3161 language
3162 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3163 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3164 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3165 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3166 machine
3167 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3168 description
3169 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3170 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3171 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3172 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3173 when using RTLD_NEXT
3174 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3175 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3176 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3177 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3178 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3179 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3180 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3181 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3182 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3183 Excavator core
3184 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3185 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3186 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3187 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3188 double range
3189 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3190 part zero incorrect
3191 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3192 equality tests
3193 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3194 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3195 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3196 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3197 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3198 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3199 glibc-2.22
3200 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3201 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3202 'tst-numeric.c'
3203 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3204 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3205 low part
3206 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3207 result
3208 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3209 unaligned stack
3210 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3211 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3212 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3213 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3214 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3215 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3216 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3217 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3218 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3219 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3220 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3221 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3222 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3223 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3224 modes
3225 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3226 server addresses
3227 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3228 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3229 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3230 response to getaddrinfo
3231 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3232 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3233 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3234 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3235 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3236 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3237 sometimes incorrect
3238 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3239 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3240 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3241 record types
3242 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3243 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3244 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3245 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3246 (CVE-2016-3075)
3247 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3248 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3249 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3250 resolving symbols
3251 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3252 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3253 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3254 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3255 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3256 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3257 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3258 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3259 gethosts
3260 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3261 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3262 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3263 (CVE-2016-3706)
3264 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3265 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3266 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3267 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3268 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3269 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3270 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3271 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3272 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3273 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3274 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3275 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3276 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3277 executable
3278 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3279 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3280 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3281 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3282 XPG3
3283 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3284 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3285 (CVE-2016-4429)
3286 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3287 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3288 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3289 AS not supporting AVX512
3290 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3291 sNaN argument
3292 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3293 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3294 argument
3295 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3296 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3297 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3298 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3299 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3300 eax=0x80000001
3301 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3302 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3303 subnormals
3304 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3305 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3306 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3307 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3308 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3309 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3310 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3311 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3312 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3313 input
3314 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3315 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3316 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3317 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3318 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3319 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3320 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3321 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3322 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3323 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3324 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3325 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3326 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3327 double rounding
3328 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3329 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3330 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3331 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3332 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3333 (Only arm/linux)
3334 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3335 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3336 fallbacks
3337 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3338 "invalid" exceptions
3339 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3340 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3341 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3342 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3343 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3344 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3345 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3346 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3347 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3348\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3349Version 2.23
3350
23256f5e
MF
3351* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3352 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3353 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3354 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3355 89, 16061, and 18568.
3356
2359035a
FW
3357* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3358 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3359 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3360 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3361 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3362 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3363 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3364
8b7b7f75
MW
3365* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3366 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3367 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3368
2eecc8af
FW
3369* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3370 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3371 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3372 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3373 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3374 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3375 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3376
a62719ba
FW
3377* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3378 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3379 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3380 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3381 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3382 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3383 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3384 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3385
bc148ca1
MF
3386* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3387 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3388 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3389 independent of the GNU C Library.
3390
1c70b6f1
ZW
3391* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3392 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3393
eed3e1eb
JM
3394* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3395 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3396 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3397 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3398 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3399 Linux kernel.
3400
1efad39b
SL
3401* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3402 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3403
d709042a
JM
3404* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3405 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3406 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3407 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3408 defining their own copy.
3409
b08b4218
JM
3410* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3411 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3412 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3413
8f5e8b01
JM
3414Security related changes:
3415
6400ae6e
FW
3416* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3417 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3418
3419* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3420 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3421 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3422 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3423 (CVE-2015-8777)
3424
3425* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3426 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3427
3428* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3429 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3430
8f5e8b01
JM
3431* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3432 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3433 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3434
e9db92d3
CD
3435* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3436 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3437 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3438 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3439 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3440 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3441 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3442 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3443 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3444 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3445 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3446 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3447 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3448
ad372e29 3449The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3450
ad372e29
AZ
3451 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3452 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3453 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3454 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3455 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3456 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3457 use `mkstemp'
3458 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3459 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3460 overflow/underflow errors
3461 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3462 overflow/underflow
3463 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3464 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3465 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3466 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3467 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3468 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3469 are not contiguous
3470 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3471 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3472 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3473 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3474 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3475 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3476 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3477 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3478 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3479 all exceptions
3480 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3481 arguments
3482 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3483 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3484 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3485 should include
3486 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3487 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3488 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3489 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3490 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3491 GNU/Linux
3492 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3493 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3494 arguments
3495 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3496 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3497 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3498 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3499 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3500 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3501 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3502 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3503 rounding results
3504 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3505 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3506 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3507 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3508 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3509 fails
3510 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3511 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3512 block boundary
3513 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3514 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3515 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3516 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3517 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3518 4.7?
3519 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3520 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3521 (related to lock elision)
3522 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3523 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3524 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3525 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3526 (CVE-2015-8779)
3527 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3528 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3529 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3530 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3531 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3532 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3533 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3534 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3535 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3536 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3537 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3538 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3539 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3540 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3541 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3542 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3543 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3544 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3545 contains a vector instruction exception.
3546 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3547 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3548 locales
3549 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3550 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3551 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3552 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3553 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3554 missing break ?
3555 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3556 32bit processes
3557 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3558 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3559 infinity
3560 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3561 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3562 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3563 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3564 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3565 be forced unloaded
3566 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3567 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3568 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3569 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3570 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3571 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3572 statically too large
3573 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3574 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3575 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3576 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3577 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3578 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3579 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3580 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3581 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3582 FUTEX_SHARED
3583 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3584 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3585 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3586 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3587 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3588 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3589 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3590 opendir()
3591 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3592 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3593 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3594 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3595 signgam
3596 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3597 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3598 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3599 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3600 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3601 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3602 dependencies
3603 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3604 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3605 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3606 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3607 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3608 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3609 (CVE-2015-8776)
3610 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3611 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3612 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3613 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3614 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3615 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3616 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3617 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3618 contention
3619 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3620 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3621 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3622 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3623 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3624 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3625 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3626 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3627 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3628 rounding modes
3629 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3630 ILP32
3631 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3632 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3633 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3634 threshold
3635 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3636 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3637 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3638 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3639 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3640 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3641 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3642 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3643 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3644 pthread_setaffinity_np
3645 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3646 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3647 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3648 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3649 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3650 prelink
3651 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3652 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3653 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3654 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3655 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3656 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3657 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3658 bits/mathcalls.h
3659 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3660 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3661 for C99-based standards
3662 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3663 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3664 math-only
3665 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3666 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3667 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3668 disabled
3669 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3670 "inexact" exceptions
3671 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3672 arguments
3673 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3674 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3675 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3676 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3677 rules
3678 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3679 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3680 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3681 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3682 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3683 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3684 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3685 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3686 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3687 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3688 from 32bit
3689 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3690 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3691 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3692 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3693 subnormals
3694 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3695 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3696 error on 32-bit architectures
3697 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3698 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3699 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3700 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3701 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3702 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3703 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3704 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3705 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3706 -Os
3707 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3708 CPU's.
3709 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3710 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3711 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3712 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3713 architectures
3714 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1c7a4a51
JM
3716Version 2.22
3717
3718* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3719
3df5cd98 3720 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3721 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3722 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3723 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3724 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3725 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3726 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3727 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3728 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3729 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3730 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3731 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3732 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3733 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3734 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3735 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3736 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3737 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3738 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3739 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3740
f7fba805
SL
3741* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3742 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3743
2959eda9
AS
3744* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3745 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3746 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3747 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3748 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3749 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3750
42261ad7
FW
3751* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3752 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3753 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3754 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3755 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3756
afcd9480
AM
3757* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3758 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3759 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3760
4a4839c9
AO
3761* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3762 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3763 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3764 17998.
3765
b13b96ca
AS
3766* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3767 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3768 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3769
3770* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3771 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3772 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3773 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3774 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3775 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3776 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3777 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3778
3779* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3780 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3781 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3782 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3783
3784* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3785 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3786 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3787
3788* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3789 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3790
3791* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3792 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3793 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3794
a03ba363 3795 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3796 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3797 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3798\f
58b930ae
SP
3799Version 2.21
3800
3801* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3802
042e1521 3803 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3804 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3805 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3806 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3807 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3808 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3809 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3810 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3811 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3812 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3813 17892.
3814
46d54873
FW
3815* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3816 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3817 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3818 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3819 intended.
042e1521
CD
3820
3821* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3822 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3823 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3824 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3825 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3826 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3827
522e6ee3
CLT
3828* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3829
d3b00f46
AZ
3830* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3831 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3832 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3833
8d2c0a59
AZ
3834* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3835 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3836 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3837 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3838 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3839 effects being visible outside transactions.
3840
dc400d7b
RE
3841* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3842 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3843
0f9dfe04
L
3844* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3845
a39208bd
CD
3846* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3847 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3848 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3849 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3850 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3851
a5357b7c
JL
3852* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3853 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3854
e54db0ea
AM
3855* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3856 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3857 format.
11e3417a 3858
4863355a
JM
3859* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3860 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3861 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3862
a4ecc9eb
JM
3863* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3864 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3865
0d560bbf 3866* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3867
3868* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3869 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3870 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3871 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3872
3873* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3874 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3875
3876* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3877 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3878 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3879 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3880 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3881 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3882 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3883 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3884 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3885 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3886 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3887 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3888 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3889
3890 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3891 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3892 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3893 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3894 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3895\f
d5b396c1
AM
3896Version 2.20
3897
3898* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3899
6a9350c8
JM
3900 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3901 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3902 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3903 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3904 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3905 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3906 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3907 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3908 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3909 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3910 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3911 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3912 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3913 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3914 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3915
95ee7fb1
SL
3916* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3917 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3918 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3919 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3920 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3921 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3922 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3923 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3924 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3925 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3926
0961f7e1
JL
3927* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3928 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3929 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3930 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3931 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3932
f940b965
RE
3933* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3934
d0f5b3f8
JM
3935* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3936 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3937
d6fe5e58
JM
3938* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3939 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3940 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3941 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3942 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3943 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3944
464263cc
JM
3945* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3946 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3947
3948* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3949 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3950 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3951 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3952 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3953 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3954 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3955
3956* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3957
3958* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3959 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3960 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3961 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3962 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3963 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3964 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3965
3966* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3967 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3968 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3969 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3970 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3971
3972* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3973 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3974 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3975
3976* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3977 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3978 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3979 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3980
3981* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3982 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3983 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3984 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3985 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3986 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3987 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3988 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3989
3990* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3991 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3992 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3993 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3994 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3995 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3996 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3997 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3998 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3999
4000* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4001 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4002 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4003 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4004 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4005 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4006
4007* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4008 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4009 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4010 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4011\f
4012Version 2.19
4013
4014* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4015
fd2f9486
JM
4016 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4017 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4018 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4019 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4020 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4021 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4022 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4023 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4024 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4025 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4026 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4027 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4028 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4029 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4030 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4031 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4032 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4033 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4034
11520a57
CD
4035* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4036 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4037
2fe16229
CD
4038* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4039 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4040 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4041 extension which uses __block.
4042
303e567a
SP
4043* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4044 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4045 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4046 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4047 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4048
141f3a77
SP
4049* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4050 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4051 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4052 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4053 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4054
4055* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4056 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4057 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4058 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4059 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4060
4061* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4062 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4063 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4064
ba0d798c
WN
4065* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4066 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4067 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4068 #15856, #15857).
4069
7cbcdb36
SP
4070* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4071 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4072
82bab04b 4073* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4074 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4075
c5f840fd
MB
4076* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4077
3e181dda
CD
4078* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4079 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4080
3e181dda 4081* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4082
8a05c252
CL
4083* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4084
6055173a
JM
4085* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4086 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4087 for which the C library was built.
4088
b125d3e5
JM
4089* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4090 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4091 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4092 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4093 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4094 in the following circumstances:
4095
4096 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4097
4098 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4099 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4100
d4f66d37
JM
4101* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4102 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4103
3e181dda
CD
4104* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4105 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4106
ffb89e53
AO
4107* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4108
5d29ccce
SP
4109* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4110 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4111
8b7d57cd 4112* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4113
4114* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4115
fd712ef3 4116* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4117
c688b419
JM
4118* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4119 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4120 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4121 disable some of those declarations.
4122
7011c262 4123* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4124 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4125 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4126
4127* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4128 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4129
4130* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4131 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4132 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4133 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4134 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4135 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4136 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4137 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4138 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4139 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4140 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4141 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4142 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4143\f
4144Version 2.18
4145
4146* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4147
17db6e8d 4148 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4149 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4150 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4151 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4152 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4153 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4154 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4155 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4156 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4157 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4158 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4159 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4160 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4161 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4162
4163* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4164 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4165 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4166 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4167 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4168 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4169
5b535ac4
AS
4170* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4171 #15078).
4172
1cef1b19
AS
4173* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4174 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4175
55e4107b
SP
4176* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4177 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4178 destructor calls to glibc.
4179
e5c74c63
SP
4180* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4181 output.
4182
4183* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4184 non-x86 architectures.
4185
e7521973
JM
4186* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4187
4188* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4189
4190* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4191 Richard Henderson.
4192
4193* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4194
4195* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4196 Richard Henderson.
4197
4198* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4199 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4200
8cfdb7e0
SP
4201* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4202
57267616
TS
4203* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4204 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4205
c204ab28
SP
4206* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4207 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4208
0748546f
PE
4209* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4210 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4211 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4212
61dd6208
SP
4213* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4214 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4215 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4216
4217* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4218 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4219 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4220 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4221 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4222
4223* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4224 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4225
4226* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4227\f
4228Version 2.17
4229
4230* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4231
80ceeaee 4232 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4233 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4234 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4235 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4236 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4237 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4238 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4239 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4240 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4241 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4242 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4243 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4244 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4245 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4246 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4247
95b4f1b6
SE
4248* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4249
14bc93a9
JL
4250* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4251 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4252
b54eb3cb
JM
4253* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4254 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4255
7e2bd01f
MS
4256* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4257
08f43f9b
AK
4258* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4259 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4260 zEnterprise z196.
4261 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4262
84b3fd84
FW
4263* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4264 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4265 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4266
815e6fa3
GB
4267* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4268 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4269
400726de
MK
4270* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4271 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4272
7aab07e4 4273* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4274 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4275
15d0da8c
WS
4276* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4277 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4278
3cc3ef96
RM
4279* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4280 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4281 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4282 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4283
b54eb3cb
JM
4284* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4285 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4286
85429b1a 4287* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4288 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4289 default.
4290
b54eb3cb
JM
4291* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4292 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4293 information in --help and --version output.
4294
050af9c4
SP
4295* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4296 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4297 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4298
89a3ad0b
AO
4299* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4300 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4301 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4302 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4303 when the mode is enabled.
4304
6e6249d0
RM
4305* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4306 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4307 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4308 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4309 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4310 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4311 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4312
d9286582
NK
4313* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4314 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
4315\f
4316Version 2.16
4317
4318* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4319
a8133e19
JM
4320 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4321 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4322 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4323 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4324 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4325 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4326 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4327 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4328 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4329 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4330 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4331 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4332 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4333 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4334 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4335 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4336 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4337 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4338 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4339 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4340 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4341 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4342 14277, 14278.
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4344* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4345 configuring glibc with:
4346 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4347 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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4348 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4349
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4350* ISO C11 support:
4351
4352 + define static_assert
4353
4354 + do not declare gets
4355
4356 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4357
4358 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4359 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4360 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4361 implementation.
8d44e150 4362
74033a25 4363 + timespec_get added
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4364
4365 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4366
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4367 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4368
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4369 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4370
9dc4e1fb 4371* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4372
4373* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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4374
4375* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4376 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4377
4378* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4379 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4380
4381* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4382 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4383 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4384 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4385 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4386
21708942 4387* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4388 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4389 before 2.6.
83678f76 4390
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4391* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4392 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4393 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4394
83678f76 4395* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
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4396
4397* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4398 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4399 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4400 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4401 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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4402
4403* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4404
d9dc34cd
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4405* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4406 and Will Schmidt.
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4407
4408* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4409
4410* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4411 without a previously built glibc.
4412
4413* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4414 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4415
4416* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4417 now supported for ARM processors.
4418
4419* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4420 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4421 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4422
4423* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4424
4425* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4426 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4427 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4428 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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4429
4430* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4431 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4432 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4433 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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4434
4435* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4436 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4437 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4438 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4439 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4440
4441* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4442 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4443 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4444 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 4446Version 2.15
11988f8f 4447
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4448* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4449
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4450 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4451 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4452 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4453 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4454 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4455 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4456 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4457
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4458* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4459 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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4460
4461* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4462 and support for initgroups lookups.
4463 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4464
4465* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4466 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4467
4468* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4469 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4470
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4471* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4472 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4473 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4474
d42964a0 4475* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
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4476 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4477
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4478* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4479 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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4480 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4481
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4482* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4483 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4484
4485* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4486 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4487
4488* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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4490
4491* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4492 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4493
4494* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4495 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4496
4497* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4498 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4499
4500* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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4501
4502* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4503 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4504
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4505* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4506 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4507
6b64057b 4508* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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9f94d2ea 4511
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4512* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4513
553149f6 4514 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4515 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4516 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4517 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4518 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4519 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4520 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4521 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4522 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4523 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4524
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4525* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4526 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4527 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4528 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4529
4530 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4531 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4532 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4534
c6489db3 4535* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4536 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4537
72d1dddb 4538* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4539 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4540
4541* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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4542
4543* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4544 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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4545
4546* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4547 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4548 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4549 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4551Version 2.13
4552
ac2b484c
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4553* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4554
c30b7ee2
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4555 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4556 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4557 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4558 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4559 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4560
10b3bedc 4561* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4562
ac2b484c 4563* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4564
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4565* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4566 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4567 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4569Version 2.12
4570
d36b9613
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4571* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4572
2e0fb521
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4573 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4574 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4575 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4576 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4577 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4578 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4579 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4580 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4581
4582* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4583
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4584* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4585
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4586* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4587
4588* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4589 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4590 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4591
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4592* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4593 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4594 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4595 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4596 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4597
d36b9613 4598* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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4599\f
4600Version 2.11
4601
d36b9613
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4602* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4603
4604 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4605 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4606 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4607 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4608 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4609 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4610
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4611* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4612 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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4613 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4614
24ab9c76 4615* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
b50f8e42
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4616 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4617
b8706f70
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4618* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4619 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4620
51a71cf0
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4621* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4622
0122f28e 4623* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 4624 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4625 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4626 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4627
9d36a6c4 4628 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4629 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4630
9d36a6c4
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4631* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4632 strstr, strcasestr.
4633 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4634
4635* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4636 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4637
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4638* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4639 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4640
4641* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4642 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4643
4644* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4645 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4646 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4647 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4648 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4649 necessity is every process again.
4650 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4651
9d36a6c4
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4652* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4653 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4654
4655* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4656 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4657
4bc1b896
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4658* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4659 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4660 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4661
9dd5b8a1 4662* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4663\f
4664Version 2.10
4665
d36b9613
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4666* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4667
4668 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4669 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4670 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4671 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4672 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4673
bb066545 4674* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4675 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4676
425ce2ed 4677* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4678 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4679
1fdd89a7 4680* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4681 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 4682
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4683* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4684 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4685
1f04d005 4686* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4687 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 4688
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4689* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4690 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4691
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4692* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4693 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4694
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4695* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4696 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4697
4698* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4699 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4700 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4701
735be400 4702* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4703
84aa52d7 4704* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4705 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4706
4707* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4708 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4709 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4710
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4711* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4712 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4713
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4714* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4715 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4716 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4717 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4718 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4719 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4721Version 2.9
4722
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4723* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4724
4725 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4726 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4727 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4728 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4729 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4730
b29899ae 4731* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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4732 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4733
4734* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4735 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4736
4737* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4738 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4739
4740* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4741 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4742 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4743
4744* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4745 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4749* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4750 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4752* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4753 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4754 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4755 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4756
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4757* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4758 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4760* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4761 Sinhala)
48b22986 4762 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4764* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4767
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4769
4770 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4771 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4772 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4773 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4774 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4775 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4776 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4777
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77751669 4780* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4782* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4783 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4784
4785* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4786
4787* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4788 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4789
4790* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4791 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4792
4793* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4794 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4795 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4796
4797* Faster memset for x86-64.
4798 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4799
4800* Faster memcpy on x86.
4801 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4802
4803* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4804 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4806* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4807 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4810
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4811* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4812
4813 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4814 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4815 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4816 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4817 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4818
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4819* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4820 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4821
4822* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4823
4824* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4825 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4826 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4827
4828* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4829 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4830
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4832 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4833
4834* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4835
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4836* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4837 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4838
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4839* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4840 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4841
4842* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4843 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4844
4845* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4846
4847* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4848 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4850* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4851 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4852 yo_NG.
4853
4854+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4855 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4860
4861 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4862 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4863 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4864 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4865 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4866 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4867 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4868 4702, 4858
4869
bce20b9a 4870* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4872* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4873
b21fa963 4874* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4877
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4878* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4879
4880 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4881 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4882 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4883 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4884 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4885 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4886 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4887 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4888 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4889
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4891 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4892 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4894* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4895 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4896
871b9158 4897* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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4899* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4901* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4902 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4903 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 4904 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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4905 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4906
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4908 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4909 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4910 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4911
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4912* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4913 Ulrich Drepper.
4914
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4915* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4916
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4917* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4918 Ulrich Drepper.
4919
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4920* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4921
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4922* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4923 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4925Version 2.4
4926
4927* More overflow detection functions.
4928
4929* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4930 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4932 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4933 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4934 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4935 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4936 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4937 by Masahide Washizawa.
4938
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4939* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4940 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4941
4942* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4943 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4944 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4945 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4947* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4948 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4949
4950* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4951
4952* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4953 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4954 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4955
4956* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4957 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4958
4959* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4960 for compatibility with some other systems.
4961
4962* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4964Version 2.3.6
4965
4966* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4967
4968 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4969 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4970 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4971 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4972 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4973 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4974
5a82c748 4975 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4977* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4978
4979* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4981Version 2.3.5
4982
4983* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4984
4985 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4986 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4987 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4988 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4989
5a82c748 4990 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4992Version 2.3.4
4993
4994* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4995 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4996
4997* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4998 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4999 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5000
5001* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5002 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5003
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5005 efficiently.
5006 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5007
5008* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5009 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5010 handling data.
5011
5012* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5013 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5014 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5016* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5017 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5018
5019* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5020 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5021 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5022 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5023
5024* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5025 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5026 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5027 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5028
5029* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5030 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5031 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5032 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5033 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5035Version 2.3.3
5036
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5037* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5038 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5039
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5040* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5041 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5044 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5045
5046* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5047 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5049* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5050 by Roland McGrath.
5051
c5af724c 5052* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5053 and Ulrich Drepper.
5054
5055* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5056 RFC 3484.
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5058Version 2.3.2
5059
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5060* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5061 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5062 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5063 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5064 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5065 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5066 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5067 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5068 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5069
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5070* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5071 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5072 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5073
5074* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5075
5076* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5077 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5079* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5080 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5081
52a16e58 5082* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5084* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5085 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5087* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5088 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5089 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5090 of weak definition in ld.so.
5091
5092* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5093 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5094
5095* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5096 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5100* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5101 charsets.
5102
5103* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5104 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5106* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5107 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5109* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5110 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5111
bb0ec5bd 5112* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5113 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5114 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5116* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5117 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5118
bb0ec5bd 5119* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5120 implementation of regex.
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5122* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5123 Unicode 3.2.
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5125* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5126 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5128* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5129 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5130 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5131
5132* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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5134
5135* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5136 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5137 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5139* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5140 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5141
5142* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5143 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5144 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5146* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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5149
5150* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5151 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5152
5153* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5154 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5156Version 2.2.5
5157
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5158* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5159 128-bit long double format.
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5161* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5162 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5163
ad2e4f18 5164* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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5166* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5167
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5168* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5169 as well.
5170
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5171* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5172 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5173
5174* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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5176Version 2.2.4
5177
2995f70e 5178* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5179 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5180
5181* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5182 support Unicode 3.1.
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5183
5184* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5185 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5186
69d5f925 5187* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5188
69d5f925 5189* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5190 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5191 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5192
5193* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5194 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5195
5196* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5197 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5198
5199* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5201Version 2.2.3
5202
1746f2b0 5203* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5204 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5205 in float, double, and long double format.
5206
f128331c 5207* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5208 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5209 128-bit long double format.
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5211* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5212 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5213 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5214 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5215
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5216* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5217 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5218 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5219
5220* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5221 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5222
5223* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5224 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5225
5226* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5227 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5228 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5229
5230* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5231 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5233* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5234 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5235
5236* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5238Version 2.2.2
5239
464d97ec 5240* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5241 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5242 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5243 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5244 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5245 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5246 other headers.
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5247
5248* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5249 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5250
5251* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5252 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5253 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5254 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5255
5256* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5257 locales. While
5258
5259 locale -a
5260
5261 only lists the names of the supported locales
5262
5263 locale -a --verbose
5264
5265 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5266 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5269
5270* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5271 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5272 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5273 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5274 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5275
5276 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5277
5278 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5279
5280 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5281
5282* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5283 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5284 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5285
5286* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5287 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5288
5289* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5290 changed from the default "C" locale.
5291
5292* The usual bug fixes.
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5294Version 2.2
5295
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5296* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5297 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5298 is in progress.
5299
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5300* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5301
793bd4d9 5302* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5304 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5305 obviously requires a database library being available.
5306
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5307* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5308
abbffdf9 5309* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5311* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5312 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5313
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5314* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5315
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5316* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5317 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5318 and Mark Kettenis.
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5319
5320 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5321 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5322 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5323
a00c3ca9 5324 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5325 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5326
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5327* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5328 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5329 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5330
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5331* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5332 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5333 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5334 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5335
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5336 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5337 structures for the wide character tables.
5338
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5339* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5340
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5341* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5342
5343* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5344
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5345* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5346 and Yutaka Niibe.
5347
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5348* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5349
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5350* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5351
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5352* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5353
5354* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5355
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5356* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5357
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5358* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5359 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5360 implemented for Linux.
5361
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5362* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5363 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5364 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5365 versions.
5366
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5367* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5368 Masahide Washizawa.
5369
8f3f1e09 5370* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5371\f
5372Version 2.1.3
5373
5374* bug fixes
5375
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5377Version 2.1.2
5378
5379* bug fixes
5380
28f540f4 5381\f
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5382Version 2.1.1
5383
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5384* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5385
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5386* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5387
407d26b7 5388* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5389
5390* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5391
407d26b7 5392* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5393
407d26b7 5394* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5395
5396* Update timezone data files.
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5398* lots of charmaps corrections
5399
5400* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5401
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5403Version 2.1
5404
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5405* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5406 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5407 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5408 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5409 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5410 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5411
c84142e8 5412* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5413 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5414
1fb05e3d 5415* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5416 symbol level.
5417
5418* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5419 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5420
cbdee279 5421* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5422
5423* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5424 numbers.
377a515b 5425
cbdee279 5426* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5427
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5428* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5429 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5430
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5431* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5432 library.
5433
e61abf83 5434* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5435 functions from ISO C 9X.
5436
5437* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5438 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5439
a5a0310d 5440* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5442* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5443
5444* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5445
440d13e2 5446* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5447
5448* Optimized string functions have been added.
5449
5450* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5451
5452* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5454* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5455 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5456
5457 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5458 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5459
0dee6738 5460 user system wall
48244d09 5461
0dee6738 5462 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5463
0dee6738 5464 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5465
0dee6738 5466 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5468 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5469
5470 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5471
5472 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5474 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5475 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5476 horribly slow.
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5478 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5479 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5480
5481* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5482
5483* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5484
5485* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5486 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5487
5488* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5490* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5491 Bambrough.
5492
5493* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5494 latest draft standards.
5495
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5496* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5497
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5499~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5500addseverity NEW: Unix98
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5502argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5503argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5504argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5505argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5506argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5507argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5508argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5509argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5510argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5511argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5513authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5514authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5516backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5517backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5518cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5519cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5520cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5521cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5522cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5523cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5524capget NEW: kernel
5525capset NEW: kernel
5526carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5527cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5528cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5529casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5530casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5531casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5532casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5533casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5534casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5535catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5536catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5537catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5538catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5539catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5540catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5543ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5544ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5545ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5546ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5547ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5548cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5549cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5550cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5551cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5552cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5553cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5554clearerr_locked REMOVED
5555clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5556clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5557clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5558clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5559clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5560clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5561clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5562conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5563conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5564conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5565cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5566cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5567cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5568cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5569cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5570cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5571creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5572crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5573creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5574creat64 NEW: LFS
5575csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5576csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5577csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5578csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5579csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5580csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5581csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5582csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5583csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5584ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5585ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5586ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5587ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5588ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5589ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5591ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5592endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5593exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5594exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5595exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5596exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5597exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5598exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5599fattach NEW: STREAMS
5600fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5601fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5602fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5603fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5604feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5605fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5606fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5607fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5608feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5609feof_locked REMOVED
5610feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5611ferror_locked REMOVED
5612fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5613fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5614fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5615fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5616feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5617fflush_locked REMOVED
5618ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5619ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5620fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5621fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5622fileno_locked REMOVED
5623fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5624fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5625fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5626fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5627fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5628fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5629fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5630fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5631fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5632fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5634fputc_locked REMOVED
5635fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5636fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5637freopen64 NEW: LFS
5638fseeko NEW: Unix98
5639fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5640fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5641fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5642fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5643ftello NEW: Unix98
5644ftello64 NEW: LFS
5645ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5646ftw64 NEW: LFS
5647fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5648gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5649gamma_r REMOVED
5650gammaf_r REMOVED
5651gammal_r REMOVED
5652getchar_locked REMOVED
5653getdate NEW: Unix98
5654getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5655getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5656getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5657getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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5660getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5661getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5662getutxent NEW: Unix98
5663getutxid NEW: Unix98
5664getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5666globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5667gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5668gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5669grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5670host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5671iconv NEW: iconv
5672iconv_close NEW: iconv
5673iconv_open NEW: iconv
5674if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5675if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5676if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5677if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5678in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5679in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5680inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5681isastream NEW: STREAMS
5682iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5683key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5684key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5685key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5686key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5687key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5688key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5689key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5690key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5691key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5692llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5693llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5694llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5695llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5696llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5697llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5698log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5699log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5700log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5701lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5702lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5703lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5704lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5705lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5706lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5707lseek64 NEW: LFS
5708makecontext NEW: Unix98
5709mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5710mmap64 NEW: LFS
5711moncontrol REMOVED
5712modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5713nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5714nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5715nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5716nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5717nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5718nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5720netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5722nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5723nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5725nftw64 NEW: LFS
5726open64 NEW: LFS
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5728pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5729pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5730pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5731pread NEW: Unix98
5732pread64 NEW: LFS
5733printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5734printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5735profil_counter REMOVED
5736pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5737pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5738ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5739ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5740putc_locked REMOVED
5741putchar_locked REMOVED
5742putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5743putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5744putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
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5746pwrite NEW: Unix98
5747pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5748readdir64 NEW: LFS
5749readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5750remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5751remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5752remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5753round NEW: ISO C 9x
5754roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5755roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5756rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5757scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5758scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5759scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5760scandir64 NEW: LFS
5761sendfile NEW: kernel
5762setcontext NEW: Unix98
5763setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5764setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5765sighold NEW: Unix98
5766sigignore NEW: Unix98
5767sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5768sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5769sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5770sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5771sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5772sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5773sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5774sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5775statfs64 NEW: LFS
5776statvfs NEW: Unix98
5777statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5778strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5779strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5780strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5781strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5782svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5783svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5784svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5785swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5786tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5787tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5788tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5789tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5790tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5791tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5792trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5793truncate64 NEW: LFS
5794truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5795truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5796umount2 NEW: kernel
5797unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5798updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5799user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5800utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5801versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5802versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5803waitid NEW: Unix98
5804wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5805wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5806wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5807wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5808wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5809wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5810wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5811wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5812wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5813wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5814write_profiling REMOVED
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5815xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5816xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5817xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5818xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5819xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5820xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5821xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5822xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5823xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5824xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5825xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5826xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5827xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5828xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5829xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5830~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5832Version 2.0.6
5833
5834* more bug fixes
5835
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5837Version 2.0.5
5838
5839* more bug fixes
5840
5841* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5842
5843* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5844
5845* rewrite of cbrt function
5846
5847* update of timezone data
5848\f
5849Version 2.0.4
5850
5851* more bug fixes
5852\f
5853Version 2.0.3
5854
5855* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5856\f
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5857Version 2.0.2
5858
5859* more bug fixes
5860
5861* add atoll function
5862
5863* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5864
5865* fix math functions
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5867Version 2.0.1
5868
5869* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5870
5871* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5872
5873* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5874 the ELF dynamic loader.
5875
5876* support for parallel builds is improved
5877\f
40a4b79f 5878Version 2.0
28f540f4 5879
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5880* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5881 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5882 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5883
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5884* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5885 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5886 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5887 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5888 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5889 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5890 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5891 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5892 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5893 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5894 files in the ELF format.
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5895
5896* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5897 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5898
5899* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5900 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5901 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5902 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5903 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5904 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5905 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5906 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5907 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5908 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5909 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5911* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5912 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5913 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5914 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5915 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5916
f7eac6eb 5917* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5918 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5919 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5920 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5921 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5922
5923* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 5924
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5925* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5926 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5927 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5928 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5929 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5930 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5931 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5932 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5933 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5934
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5935* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5936 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5937 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5938
5939* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5940 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5941 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5942
5943* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5944 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5945 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5946 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5947
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5948* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5949 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5950 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5951
5952* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5953 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5954 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5955
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5956* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5957 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5958
f7eac6eb 5959* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5960 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5961 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5962 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5963
5964* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5965 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5966 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5967
71733723 5968* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5969 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5970 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5971 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5972 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5973 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5974 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5975 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5976
5977* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5978 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5979 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5980 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5981 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5982 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5983 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5984
5985* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5986 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5987 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5988 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5989 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5990 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5991
5992* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5993 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5994
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5995* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5996 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5997 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5999* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6000
6001* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6002 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6003 their use is discouraged.
6004
6005* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6006 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6008* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6009 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6010
6011* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6012 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6013
6014* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6015 see <dirent.h>.
6016
6017* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6018 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6019 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6020 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6021 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6022
6023* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6024 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6025 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6026 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6027
6028* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6029 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6030
6031* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6032 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6033 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6034 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6035 number generator.
6036
6037* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6038 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6039
6040* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6041 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6042
71733723 6043* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6044 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6045 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6046 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6047
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6048* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6049
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6050* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6051 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6052 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6053
6054* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6055 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6057* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6058 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6059 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6060 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6061
6062* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6063 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6064 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6065 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6066 programs already written to use it.)
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6067
6068* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6069 constants.
6070
6071* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6072 with 4.4 BSD.
6073
6074* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6075 a given effective group ID.
6076
6077* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6078 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6079 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6080 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6081
6082* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6083 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6084 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6085 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6086 doing the same thing.
6087
6088* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6089 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6090
6091* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6092 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6093
6094* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6095
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6096* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6097 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6098 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6099 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6100 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6101
6102* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6103 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6104
6105* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6106 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6107 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6108 function.
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6109
6110* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6111
6112* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6113 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6114 strings.
6115
6116* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6117 and writing the utmp file.
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6118
6119* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6120 Thorsten Kukuk.
6121
6122* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6123 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6124 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6125
6126* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6127 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6128
6129* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6130 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6131 specification.
6132
6133* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6134 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6135 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6136 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6137
6138* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6139 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6140 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6141
6142* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6143 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6144 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6145 expression matcher.
6146
6147* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6148 functionality.
6149
6150* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6151 by Ulrich Drepper.
6152
6153* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6154
6155* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6156 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6157 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6159Version 1.09
6160
6161* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6162
6163* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6164 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6165
6166* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6167 want to put themselves in the background.
6168
6169* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6170 run without an operating system.
6171
6172* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6173 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6174
6175* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6176 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6177
6178* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6179
6180* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6181 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6182 have YP (aka NIS).
6183
6184* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6185 conventions.
6186
6187* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6188 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6189\f
6190Version 1.08
6191
6192* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6193 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6194 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6195
6196* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6197 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6198
6199* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6200 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6201
6202* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6203
6204* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6205
6206* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6207 compatibility.
6208
6209* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6210 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6211 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6212
6213* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6214
6215* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6216 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6217 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6218
6219* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6220 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6221 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6222 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6223 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6224 on a block).
6225
6226* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6227 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6228 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6229 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6230 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6231 cross-compiler.
6232
6233* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6234 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6235\f
6236Version 1.07
6237
6238* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6239 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6240
6241* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6242 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6243 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6244
6245* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6246 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6247 address of the last character written.
6248
6249* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6250 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6251
6252* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6253 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6254
6255* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6256 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6257 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6258 you dereference this pointer.
6259
6260* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6261 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6262
6263* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6264 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6265 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6266 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6267
6268* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6269 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6270 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6271 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6272\f
6273Version 1.06
6274
6275* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6276 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6277 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6278 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6279 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6281* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6282
6283* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6284
6285* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6286 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6287
6288* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6289 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6290
6291* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6292 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6293
6294* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6295 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6296 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6297 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6298 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6299
6300* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6301 to the error code in `errno'.
6302
6303* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6304 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6305 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6306 malloc'd string.
6307
6308* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6309 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6310 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6311
6312* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6313 uniquely-named temporary file.
6314\f
6315Version 1.05
6316
6317* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6318 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6319 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6320
6321* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6322 characters.
6323
6324* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6325 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6326
6327* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6328\f
6329Version 1.04
6330
6331* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6332 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6333 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6334 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6335
6336* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6337 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6338 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6339
6340* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6341 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6342
6343* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6344 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6345 made itself into a shared library.
6346
6347* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6348 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6349
6350* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6351 with limited length.
6352
6353* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6354
6355* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6356
6357* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6358
6359* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6360 function for traversing a directory tree.
6361
6362* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6363 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6364 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6365 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6366
6367* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6368 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6369
6370* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6371
6372* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6373 things to your strings.
6374
6375* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6376
6377* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6378 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6379 supporting those systems.
6380
6381* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6382 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6383 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6384 configuration files.
6385
6386* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6387 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6388
6389* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6390 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6391 in <strings.h>.)
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6392
6393* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6394 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6395 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6396 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6397 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6398 required storage is not available.
6399
6400* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6401 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6402
6403* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6404 latest files released from Berkeley.
6405\f
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6408
6409 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6410 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6411 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6412 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6413
6414 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6415 of this document, or of portions of it,
6416 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6417 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6418\f
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