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8 Version 2.39
9
10 Major new features:
11
12 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
13 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
14 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
15 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
16
17 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
18 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
19 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
20 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
21 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
22
23 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
24 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
25 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
26 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
27 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
28 posix_spawn interface.
29
30 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
31 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
32 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
33
34 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
35 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
36 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
37 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
38 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
39 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
40
41 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
42
43 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
44
45 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
46
47 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
48 instructions.
49
50 Security related changes:
51
52 CVE-2023-4527: If the system is configured in no-aaaa mode via
53 /etc/resolv.conf, getaddrinfo is called for the AF_UNSPEC address
54 family, and a DNS response is received over TCP that is larger than
55 2048 bytes, getaddrinfo may potentially disclose stack contents via
56 the returned address data, or crash.
57
58 CVE-2023-4806: When an NSS plugin only implements the
59 _gethostbyname2_r and _getcanonname_r callbacks, getaddrinfo could use
60 memory that was freed during buffer resizing, potentially causing a
61 crash or read or write to arbitrary memory.
62
63 CVE-2023-5156: The fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced a memory leak when
64 an application calls getaddrinfo for AF_INET6 with AI_CANONNAME,
65 AI_ALL and AI_V4MAPPED flags set.
66
67 CVE-2023-4911: If a tunable of the form NAME=NAME=VAL is passed in the
68 environment of a setuid program and NAME is valid, it may result in a
69 buffer overflow, which could be exploited to achieve escalated
70 privileges. This flaw was introduced in glibc 2.34.
71
72 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
73
74 [The release manager will add the list generated by
75 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
76 \f
77 Version 2.38
78
79 Major new features:
80
81 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
82 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
83 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
84 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
85 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
86 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
87 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
88 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
89 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
90 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
91 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
92
93 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
94 <inttypes.h>.
95
96 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
97 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
98 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
99 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
100 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
101 specified in draft ISO C2X.
102
103 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
104 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
105
106 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
107 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
108
109 - x86_64-gnu
110
111 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
112 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
113 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
114 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
115 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
116
117 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
118 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
119
120 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
121 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
122 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
123 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
124 original behavior unchanged.
125
126 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
127
128 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
129 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
130 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
131 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
132
133 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
134 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
135 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
136 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
137 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
138 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
139
140 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
141 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
142 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
143
144 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
145 feature is now always enabled.
146
147 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
148
149 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
150 ACLE.
151
152 Security related changes:
153
154 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
155 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
156 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
157 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
158 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
159 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
160
161 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
162
163 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
164 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
165 threads and stdio
166 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
167 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
168 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
169 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
170 intXX_t
171 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
172 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
173 argument
174 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
175 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
176 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
177 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
178 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
179 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
180 systems
181 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
182 symlink for libraries without soname
183 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
184 Clang
185 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
186 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
187 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
188 profiling data correctly
189 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
190 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
191 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
192 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
193 unnecessarily
194 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
195 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
196 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
197 early startup
198 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
199 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
200 on clang
201 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
202 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
203 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
204 \f
205 Version 2.37
206
207 Major new features:
208
209 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
210 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
211 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
212 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
213
214 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
215
216 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
217 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
218 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
219 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
220
221 Security related changes:
222
223 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
224 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
225 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
226 portion of the contents of the heap.
227
228 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
229
230 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
231 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
232 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
233 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
234 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
235 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
236 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
237 redirection headers
238 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
239 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
240 first if in a cycle
241 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
242 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
243 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
244 gethostbyname and other functions
245 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
246 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
247 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
248 wrong family
249 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
250 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
251 failed!
252 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
253 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
254 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
255 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
256 segfault on alpha
257 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
258 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
259 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
260 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
261 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
262 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
263 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
264 reuses namespace
265 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
266 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
267 futexes on qemu-user
268 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
269 printed
270 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
271 whitespace
272 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
273 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
274 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
275 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
276 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
277 file support
278 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
279 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
280 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
281 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
282 cache is enabled
283 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
284 BMI2 instructions
285 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
286 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
287 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
288 platforms
289 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
290 optimizations
291 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
292 thousands grouping
293 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
294 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
295 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
296 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
297 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
298 aux.S: No such file or directory)
299 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
300 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
301 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
302 coincides with offset change
303 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
304 length in fortify mode
305 \f
306 Version 2.36
307
308 Major new features:
309
310 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
311 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
312 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
313 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
314 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
315 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
316
317 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
318 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
319 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
320
321 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
322 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
323 by the pidfd.
324
325 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
326 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
327 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
328 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
329
330 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
331 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
332 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
333 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
334 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
335 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
336 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
337 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
338 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
339 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
340 validation by applications.
341
342 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
343 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
344 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
345 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
346 with namespaces.
347
348 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
349 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
350 unpredictable output.
351
352 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
353 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
354 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
355 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
356 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
357 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
358 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
359 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
360
361 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
362 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
363 quality randomness from the kernel.
364
365 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
366 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
367 ABI is supported:
368
369 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
370
371 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
372
373 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
374
375 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
376 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
377 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
378
379 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
380 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
381 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
382 when libc.so is issued directly.
383
384 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
385
386 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
387
388 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
389 return different result with versioned "foo"
390 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
391 mess
392 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
393 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
394 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
395 calls dlclose
396 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
397 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
398 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
399 enforced
400 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
401 deadlock
402 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
403 format
404 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
405 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
406 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
407 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
408 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
409 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
410 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
411 other standards.
412 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
413 from the stack
414 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
415 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
416 (breaks test isolation)
417 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
418 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
419 __convert_scm_timestamps
420 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
421 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
422 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
423 missing libraries
424 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
425 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
426 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
427 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
428 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
429 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
430 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
431 SUCCESS=MERGE
432 [28936] build: nm: No such file
433 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
434 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
435 clobbers errno
436 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
437 bench.
438 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
439 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
440 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
441 /proc/self/fd/
442 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
443 on ENOENT and EACCES
444 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
445 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
446 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
447 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
448 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
449 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
450 is promoted to global scope
451 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
452 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
453 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
454 broke ld.so
455 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
456 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
457 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
458 failure
459 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
460 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
461 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
462 before '__fortified_attr_access'
463 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
464 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
465 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
466 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
467 value for filling after \0
468 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
469 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
470 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
471 aware
472 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
473 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
474 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
475 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
476 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
477 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
478 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
479 line 184
480 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
481 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
482 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
483 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
484 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
485 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
486 missing on microblaze with largefile
487 \f
488 Version 2.35
489
490 Major new features:
491
492 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
493 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
494 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
495
496 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
497 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
498
499 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
500 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
501 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
502 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
503 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
504 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
505 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
506 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
507 glibc, and must be installed.
508
509 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
510 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
511 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
512
513 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
514 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
515
516 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
517 fMxfmafNx functions.
518
519 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
520 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
521 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
522 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
523 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
524 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
525
526 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
527 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
528 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
529 M_SQRT1_2f.
530
531 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
532 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
533
534 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
535 macro in <tgmath.h>.
536
537 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
538
539 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
540 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
541 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
542
543 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
544 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
545 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
546 object dependency cases.
547
548 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
549 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
550 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
551 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
552
553 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
554 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
555 return value is only used for its boolean status.
556
557 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
558 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
559 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
560 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
561 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
562 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
563 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
564 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
565 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
566 Restartable Sequences.
567
568 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
569 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
570
571 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
572 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
573 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
574 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
575 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
576 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
577 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
578 configuration.
579
580 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
581 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
582 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
583 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
584 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
585 huge pages.
586
587 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
588 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
589
590 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
591 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
592 address.
593
594 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
595 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
596 ABI is supported:
597
598 - or1k-linux-gnu
599
600 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
601 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
602
603 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
604 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
605 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
606 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
607 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
608
609 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
610 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
611
612 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
613 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
614 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
615
616 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
617 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
618 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
619 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
620 bounds).
621
622 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
623 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
624
625 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
626
627 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
628 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
629 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
630
631 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
632 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
633
634 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
635 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
636
637 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
638
639 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
640
641 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
642 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
643 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
644
645 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
646 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
647 catching coredumps and backtraces.
648
649 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
650 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
651 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
652
653 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
654 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
655 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
656
657 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
658 support prelink PIE binaries.
659
660 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
661
662 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
663 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
664 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
665 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
666 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
667
668 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
669 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
670 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
671 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
672
673 Security related changes:
674
675 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
676 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
677 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
678
679 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
680 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
681
682 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
683 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
684 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
685
686 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
687 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
688 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
689 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
690 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
691
692 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
693
694 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
695 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
696 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
697 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
698 many dsos
699 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
700 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
701 degradation
702 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
703 loaded with dlmopen
704 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
705 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
706 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
707 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
708 ID whose lifetime has not ended
709 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
710 (CVE-2022-23219)
711 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
712 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
713 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
714 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
715 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
716 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
717 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
718 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
719 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
720 --enable-initfini-array
721 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
722 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
723 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
724 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
725 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
726 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
727 empty
728 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
729 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
730 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
731 built with ld.lld
732 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
733 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
734 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
735 2.34
736 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
737 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
738 robustness
739 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
740 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
741 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
742 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
743 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
744 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
745 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
746 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
747 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
748 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
749 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
750 file
751 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
752 only dynamic section
753 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
754 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
755 recvmsg()
756 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
757 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
758 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
759 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
760 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
761 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
762 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
763 C2X
764 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
765 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
766 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
767 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
768 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
769 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
770 globalmod1.so
771 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
772 systems with TIMESIZE=64
773 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
774 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
775 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
776 spurious NUL character on state reset
777 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
778 incorrect
779 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
780 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
781 execution test
782 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
783 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
784 hppa
785 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
786 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
787 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
788 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
789 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
790 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
791 crashes
792 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
793 binutils changes
794 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
795 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
796 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
797 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
798 is not useful
799 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
800 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
801 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
802 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
803 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
804 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
805 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
806 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
807 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
808 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
809 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
810 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
811 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
812 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
813 (CVE-2022-23218)
814 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
815 (CVE-2021-3999)
816 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
817 results (CVE-2021-3998)
818 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
819 in Systemtap probes
820 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
821 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
822 x86-64-baseline
823 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
824 with no closing ]
825 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
826 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
827 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
828
829 \f
830 Version 2.34
831
832 Major new features:
833
834 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
835 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
836 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
837 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
838 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
839 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
840 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
841 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
842 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
843 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
844 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
845 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
846 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
847 potentially exposing application bugs.
848
849 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
850 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
851 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
852 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
853
854 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
855 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
856 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
857 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
858 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
859 Arm SVE.
860
861 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
862 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
863 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
864
865 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
866 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
867 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
868 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
869
870 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
871
872 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
873 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
874 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
875 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
876 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
877
878 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
879 --disable-scv configure option.
880
881 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
882 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
883 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
884 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
885 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
886 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
887 version of 5.1.
888
889 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
890 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
891 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
892 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
893 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
894 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
895 that directory.
896
897 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
898 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
899
900 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
901 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
902 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
903 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
904 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
905 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
906 is currently a GNU extension.
907
908 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
909 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
910
911 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
912 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
913 although it is also present in other systems.
914
915 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
916 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
917 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
918 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
919
920 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
921 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
922 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
923
924 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
925
926 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
927 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
928 instead.
929
930 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
931 programs should use the equivalent standard function
932 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
933
934 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
935 programs should use the equivalent standard function
936 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
937
938 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
939 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
940
941 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
942
943 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
944 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
945 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
946 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
947 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
948 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
949 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
950 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
951 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
952 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
953 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
954
955 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
956 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
957 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
958 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
959 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
960 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
961 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
962 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
963
964 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
965 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
966 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
967 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
968 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
969 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
970 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
971
972 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
973 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
974 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
975 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
976 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
977 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
978 upgrade or downgrade process.
979
980 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
981 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
982 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
983
984 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
985 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
986 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
987 no longer have any effect on malloc.
988
989 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
990 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
991 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
992 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
993 this functionality back.
994
995 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
996 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
997 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
998 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
999
1000 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1001 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1002 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1003 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1004 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1005 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1006 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1007 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1008 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1009
1010 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1011
1012 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1013 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1014 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1015 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1016
1017 Security related changes:
1018
1019 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1020 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1021 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1022 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1023
1024 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1025 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1026 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1027
1028 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1029 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1030 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1031
1032 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1033
1034 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1035 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1036 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1037 given integer (closefrom)
1038 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1039 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1040 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1041 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1042 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1043 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1044 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1045 random thread
1046 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1047 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1048 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1049 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1050 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1051 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1052 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1053 manual is incorrect
1054 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1055 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1056 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1057 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1058 pthread_create and dlopen
1059 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1060 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1061 when non-root user changes priority
1062 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1063 dlopen
1064 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1065 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1066 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1067 ordered correctly
1068 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1069 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1070 data.
1071 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1072 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1073 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1074 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1075 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1076 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1077 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1078 the right free implementation
1079 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1080 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1081 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1082 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1083 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1084 protector=all)
1085 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1086 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1087 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1088 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1089 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1090 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1091 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1092 uninitialized
1093 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1094 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1095 system calls
1096 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1097 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1098 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1099 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1100 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1101 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1102 deployments
1103 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1104 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1105 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1106 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1107 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1108 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1109 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1110 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1111 is present
1112 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1113 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1114 protector=all
1115 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1116 information for the current directory
1117 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1118 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1119 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1120 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1121 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1122 containers
1123 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1124 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1125 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1126 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1127 INT_MAX
1128 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1129 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1130 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1131 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1132 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1133 tries resolving them lazily
1134 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1135 libthread_db
1136 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1137 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1138 argument
1139 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1140 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1141 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1142 not set ENOMEM
1143 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1144 randomization
1145 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1146 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1147 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1148 IS_ERR_VALUE
1149 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1150 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1151 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1152 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1153 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1154 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1155 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1156 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1157 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1158 with n >= 0x80000000
1159 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1160 thread never allocated anything
1161 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1162 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1163 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1164 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1165 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1166 on older kernels
1167 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1168 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1169 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1170 AMD64 cpus
1171 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1172 terminator
1173
1174 \f
1175 Version 2.33
1176
1177 Major new features:
1178
1179 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1180 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1181 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1182
1183 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1184 to change argv[0] string.
1185
1186 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1187 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1188 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1189 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1190 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1191 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1192 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1193 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1194 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1195
1196 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1197 information and library search path diagnostics.
1198
1199 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1200 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1201 larger than fit in an integer.
1202
1203 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1204
1205 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1206 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1207
1208 - rv32imac ilp32
1209 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1210 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1211
1212 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1213 2.28.
1214
1215 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1216 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1217 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1218 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1219 fortification.
1220
1221 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1222
1223 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1224 mallinfo2 instead.
1225
1226 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1227 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1228 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1229
1230 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1231 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1232 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1233 prlimit.
1234
1235 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1236 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1237 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1238
1239 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1240 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1241 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1242 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1243 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1244 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1245
1246 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1247 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1248 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1249 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1250 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1251 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1252 loaded.
1253
1254 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1255
1256 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1257 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1258 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1259 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1260 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1261 perform any adjustments.
1262
1263 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1264 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1265 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1266 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1267
1268 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1269
1270 Security related changes:
1271
1272 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1273 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1274 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1275 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1276 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1277
1278 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1279 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1280 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1281
1282 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1283 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1284
1285 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1286 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1287
1288 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1289
1290 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1291 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1292 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1293 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1294 AT_EACCESS
1295 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1296 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1297 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1298 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1299 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1300 with GCC
1301 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1302 stack-protector=all
1303 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1304 cases
1305 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1306 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1307 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1308 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1309 changing gnuc version
1310 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1311 incorrect
1312 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1313 bits
1314 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1315 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1316 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1317 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1318 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1319 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1320 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1321 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1322 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1323 too much stack space
1324 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1325 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1326 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1327 with optimization.
1328 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1329 anymore
1330 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1331 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1332 non-FMA4 system
1333 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1334 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1335 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1336 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1337 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1338 getaddrinfo
1339 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1340 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1341 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1342 fault
1343 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1344 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1345 at the end of a memory mapping
1346 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1347 by the caller to the kernel
1348 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1349 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1350 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1351 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1352 monotonic clocks
1353 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1354 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1355 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1356 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1357 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1358 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1359 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1360 one element
1361 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1362 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1363 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1364 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1365 lazy bound
1366 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1367 PI mutexes
1368 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1369 not safe
1370 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1371 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1372 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1373 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1374 platform
1375 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1376 startup code
1377 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1378 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1379 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1380 protected
1381 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1382 only since 2.31
1383 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1384 locked
1385 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1386 aligned
1387 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1388 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1389 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1390 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1391 detection logic
1392 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1393 pclose(3))
1394 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1395 setup
1396 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1397 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1398 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1399 work
1400 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1401 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1402 [27177] dynamic-link:
1403 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1404 work
1405 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1406 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1407 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1408 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1409
1410 \f
1411 Version 2.32
1412
1413 Major new features:
1414
1415 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1416 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1417 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1418
1419 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1420
1421 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1422 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1423 Three ABIs are supported:
1424
1425 - arc-linux-gnu
1426 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1427 - arceb-linux-gnu
1428
1429 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1430 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1431
1432 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1433 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1434
1435 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1436 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1437 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1438 this option.
1439
1440 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1441 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1442 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1443
1444 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1445 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1446 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1447
1448 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1449 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1450 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1451 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1452 libpthread.
1453
1454 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1455 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1456 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1457 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1458 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1459 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1460
1461 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1462 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1463
1464 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1465 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1466 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1467 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1468 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1469 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1470
1471 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1472 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1473
1474 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1475 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1476 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1477 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1478 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1479 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1480 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1481 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1482 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1483 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1484 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1485 BTI compatible.
1486
1487 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1488
1489 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1490 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1491 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1492 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1493 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1494 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1495 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1496
1497 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1498 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1499 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1500 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1501 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1502 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1503 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1504 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1505 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1506
1507 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1508 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1509 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1510 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1511 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1512
1513 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1514 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1515 was not declared in any header file.
1516
1517 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1518 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1519 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1520 sigaction functions instead.
1521
1522 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1523 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1524
1525 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1526 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1527 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1528 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1529 strsignal instead.
1530
1531 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1532 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1533 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1534 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1535 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1536
1537 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1538 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1539 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1540 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1541
1542 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1543 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1544 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1545 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1546 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1547 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1548 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1549
1550 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1551 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1552 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1553 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1554 flavor of secure RPC.)
1555
1556 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1557 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1558 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1559 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1560 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1561 object, to enable the hooks.
1562
1563 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1564 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1565 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1566 LDAP.
1567
1568 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1569
1570 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1571 long double redirects.
1572
1573 Security related changes:
1574
1575 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1576 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1577 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1578
1579 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1580 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1581 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1582
1583 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1584 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1585
1586 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1587 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1588 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1589 TALOS-2020-1019).
1590
1591 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1592
1593 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1594 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1595 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1596 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1597 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1598 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1599 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1600 filtee has constructor
1601 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1602 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1603 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1604 character entities for infinity & pi
1605 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1606 segfaults in applications
1607 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1608 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1609 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1610 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1611 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1612 function with -mlong-double-64
1613 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1614 binding
1615 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1616 ld.so.cache
1617 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1618 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1619 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1620 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1621 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1622 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1623 linker
1624 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1625 dynamically loaded dsos
1626 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1627 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1628 access
1629 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1630 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1631 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1632 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1633 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1634 stale configuration forever
1635 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1636 (CVE-2020-10029)
1637 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1638 defaults to PIE
1639 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1640 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1641 (CVE-2020-6096)
1642 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1643 on 32 bit and old kernel
1644 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1645 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1646 Occitan
1647 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1648 amount of sigset_t bytes
1649 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1650 strings
1651 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1652 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1653 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1654 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1655 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1656 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1657 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1658 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1659 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1660 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1661 size_t
1662 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1663 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1664 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1665 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1666 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1667 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1668 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1669 cpu=power9
1670 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1671 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1672 segfault
1673 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1674 exiting detached thread
1675 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1676 for x32
1677 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1678 ERANGE
1679 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1680 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1681 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1682 dependencies in audit mode
1683 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1684 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1685 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1686 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1687 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1688 input
1689 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1690 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1691 preserve r2
1692 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1693 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1694 variables
1695 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1696 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1697 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1698 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1699 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1700 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1701 corruption in memset
1702
1703 \f
1704 Version 2.31
1705
1706 Major new features:
1707
1708 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1709 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1710 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1711 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1712 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1713 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1714
1715 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1716 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1717 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1718 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1719
1720 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1721 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1722 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1723
1724 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1725
1726 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1727 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1728 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1729 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1730 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1731 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1732 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1733 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1734
1735 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1736
1737 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1738 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1739 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1740 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1741 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1742 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1743
1744 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1745 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1746 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1747
1748 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1749 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1750 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1751 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1752
1753 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1754 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1755 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1756 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1757 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1758 made this no longer practical.
1759
1760 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1761 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1762 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1763 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1764 release.)
1765
1766 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1767 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1768 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1769
1770 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1771 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1772 using clock_gettime instead.
1773
1774 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1775 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1776 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1777 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1778 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1779
1780 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1781 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1782 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1783 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1784
1785 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1786 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1787 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1788 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1789 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1790 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1791
1792 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1793 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1794 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1795 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1796 offset API.
1797
1798 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1799 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1800 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1801
1802 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1803 configurations.
1804
1805 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1806 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1807 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1808 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1809 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1810
1811 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1812 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1813 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1814 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1815 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1816 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1817 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1818 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1819
1820 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1821 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1822
1823 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1824 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1825 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1826 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1827 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1828 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1829
1830 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1831
1832 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1833 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1834 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1835
1836 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1837 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1838 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1839
1840 Security related changes:
1841
1842 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1843 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1844
1845 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1846 environment variable during program execution after a security
1847 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1848 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1849 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1850
1851 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1852
1853 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1854 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1855 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1856 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1857 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1858 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1859 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1860 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1861 linking failure
1862 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1863 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1864 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1865 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1866 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1867 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1868 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1869 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1870 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1871 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1872 7408-2005
1873 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1874 with localedef
1875 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1876 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1877 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1878 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1879 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1880 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1881 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1882 utmp entries
1883 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1884 ABSOLUTE ABI
1885 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1886 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1887 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1888 (stringop-overflow error)
1889 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1890 functions other can lead to crashes
1891 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1892 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1893 unconditionally
1894 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1895 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1896 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1897 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1898 still can fail with an error
1899 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1900 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1901 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1902 initialized correctly
1903 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1904 -frewrite-includes
1905 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1906 value to an unsigned
1907 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1908 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1909 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1910 protection
1911 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1912 ifunc variant.
1913 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1914 al. for Clang++
1915 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1916 (Slovenian)
1917 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1918 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1919 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1920 with -std=c11
1921 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1922 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1923 part
1924 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1925 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1926 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1927 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1928 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1929 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1930
1931 \f
1932 Version 2.30
1933
1934 Major new features:
1935
1936 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1937 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1938 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1939
1940 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1941 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1942
1943 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1944 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1945 to the callback function.
1946
1947 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1948
1949 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1950 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1951 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1952
1953 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1954
1955 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1956 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1957 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1958 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1959 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1960
1961 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1962 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1963 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1964 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1965 link time reference, is gone.
1966
1967 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1968 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1969 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1970 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1971 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1972 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1973 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1974 the clock choice at initialization time).
1975
1976 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1977 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1978 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1979
1980 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1981
1982 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1983 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1984 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1985 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1986 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1987 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1988 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1989 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1990 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1991
1992 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1993 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1994 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1995 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1996 since glibc 2.17.
1997
1998 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1999 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2000
2001 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2002 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2003
2004 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2005 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2006
2007 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2008 BIND_NOW flag.
2009
2010 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2011 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2012 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2013
2014 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2015 header have been removed.
2016
2017 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2018 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2019 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2020 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2021
2022 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2023
2024 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2025
2026 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2027 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2028
2029 Security related changes:
2030
2031 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2032 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2033 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2034 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2035 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2036 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2037 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2038
2039 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2040 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2041 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2042
2043 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2044
2045 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2046 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2047 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2048 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2049 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2050 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2051 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2052 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2053 invalid input drops valid char
2054 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2055 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2056 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2057 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2058 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2059 malloc.h.
2060 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2061 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2062 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2063 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2064 functions
2065 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2066 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2067 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2068 for long double = double
2069 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2070 long double = double
2071 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2072 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2073 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2074 long timeouts
2075 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2076 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2077 checking for NULL.
2078 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2079 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2080 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2081 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2082 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2083 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2084 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2085 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2086 not the default "nor"
2087 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2088 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2089 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2090 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2091 compiler barriers.
2092 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2093 unnecessary librt dependencies
2094 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2095 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2096 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2097 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2098 unsorted chunk
2099 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2100 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2101 to R_SPARC_H44
2102 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2103 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2104 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2105 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2106 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2107 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2108 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2109 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2110 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2111 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2112 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2113 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2114 was not used
2115 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2116 tests
2117 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2118 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2119 time_t changes
2120 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2121 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2122 kernels and break testing
2123 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2124 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2125 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2126 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2127 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2128 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2129 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2130 -O3 -march=skylake
2131 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2132 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2133 crash
2134 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2135 linked glibc
2136 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2137 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2138 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2139 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2140 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2141 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2142 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2143 always implemented in the same library
2144 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2145 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2146 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2147 testroot
2148
2149 \f
2150 Version 2.29
2151
2152 Major new features:
2153
2154 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2155 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2156
2157 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2158 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2159 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2160 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2161 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2162 configured location.
2163
2164 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2165
2166 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2167 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2168
2169 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2170 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2171 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2172 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2173 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2174 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2175 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2176 process actually does not use HTM).
2177
2178 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2179 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2180 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2181 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2182 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2183 of the same name.
2184
2185 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2186 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2187 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2188 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2189 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2190
2191 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2192 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2193 supported:
2194 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2195 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2196
2197 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2198 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2199 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2200 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2201 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2202 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2203 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2204
2205 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2206 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2207 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2208
2209 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2210
2211 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2212 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2213
2214 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2215 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2216 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2217 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2218
2219 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2220 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2221 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2222 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2223 structures.
2224
2225 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2226 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2227 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2228 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2229 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2230 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2231
2232 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2233 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2234 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2235 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2236 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2237
2238 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2239 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2240 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2241
2242 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2243
2244 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2245
2246 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2247 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2248
2249 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2250 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2251
2252 Security related changes:
2253
2254 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2255 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2256 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2257
2258 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2259 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2260 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2261 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2262 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2263
2264 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2265 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2266 or command injection issues in applications.
2267
2268 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2269
2270 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2271 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2272 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2273 thousands
2274 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2275 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2276 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2277 --param options)
2278 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2279 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2280 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2281 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2282 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2283 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2284 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2285 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2286 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2287 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2288 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2289 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2290 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2291 pointer argument is non-NULL
2292 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2293 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2294 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2295 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2296 multithreads call popen
2297 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2298 and pthread_create fails.
2299 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2300 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2301 constructor
2302 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2303 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2304 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2305 source tree
2306 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2307 float
2308 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2309 one error
2310 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2311 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2312 linker
2313 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2314 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2315 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2316 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2317 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2318 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2319 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2320 filesystems
2321 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2322 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2323 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2324 functions
2325 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2326 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2327 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2328 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2329 have wrong type
2330 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2331 wrong type
2332 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2333 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2334 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2335 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2336 threads
2337 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2338 start.S
2339 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2340 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2341 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2342 powerpc64le
2343 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2344 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2345 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2346 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2347 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2348 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2349 strftime
2350 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2351 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2352 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2353 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2354 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2355 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2356 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2357 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2358 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2359 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2360 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2361 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2362 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2363 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2364 tcache size
2365 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2366 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2367 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2368 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2369 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2370 (CVE-2018-19591)
2371 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2372 nearest rounding mode
2373 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2374 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2375 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2376 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2377 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2378 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2379 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2380 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2381 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2382 error
2383 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2384 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2385 using GCC 8
2386 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2387 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2388 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2389 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2390 ppc64le
2391 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2392 expected result
2393 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2394 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2395 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2396 sigaltstack
2397 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2398 answers will be rejected)
2399 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2400
2401 \f
2402 Version 2.28
2403
2404 Major new features:
2405
2406 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2407 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2408 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2409 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2410 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2411 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2412 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2413 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2414 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2415 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2416 archive or binary locales.
2417
2418 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2419 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2420 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2421 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2422 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2423 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2424 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2425 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2426 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2427 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2428 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2429 validated for i686.
2430
2431 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2432 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2433 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2434 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2435 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2436 field) to indicate such support is required.
2437
2438 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2439 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2440 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2441
2442 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2443 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2444
2445 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2446 fMxaddfNx functions.
2447
2448 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2449 fMxsubfNx functions.
2450
2451 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2452 fMxmulfNx functions.
2453
2454 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2455 fMxdivfNx functions.
2456
2457 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2458 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2459 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2460 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2461 and Kashubian.
2462
2463 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2464 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2465
2466 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2467 patches.
2468
2469 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2470 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2471 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2472 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2473 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2474 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2475 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2476 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2477
2478 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2479 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2480 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2481 the fstatat64 function.
2482
2483 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2484 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2485 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2486 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2487 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2488 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2489 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2490 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2491 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2492
2493 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2494 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2495 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2496 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2497 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2498 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2499 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2500 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2501 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2502 results in a load failure now.
2503
2504 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2505 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2506 <threads.h>:
2507
2508 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2509 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2510
2511 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2512 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2513
2514 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2515
2516 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2517 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2518
2519 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2520
2521 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2522
2523 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2524
2525 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2526 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2527 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2528
2529 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2530 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2531 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2532 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2533 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2534 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2535
2536 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2537 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2538 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2539 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2540 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2541 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2542 (Bug #1190.)
2543
2544 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2545 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2546 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2547 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2548 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2549 further explanation.
2550
2551 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2552 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2553 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2554
2555 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2556
2557 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2558 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2559 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2560
2561 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2562 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2563 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2564 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2565
2566 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2567 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2568 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2569 for this function instead.
2570
2571 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2572 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2573 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2574
2575 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2576 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2577 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2578 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2579
2580 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2581 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2582 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2583 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2584 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2585
2586 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2587 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2588 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2589 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2590 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2591 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2592 such as libgcrypt.
2593
2594 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2595 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2596 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2597 enabled.
2598
2599 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2600 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2601 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2602
2603 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2604 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2605 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2606 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2607 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2608 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2609
2610 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2611 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2612 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2613 behavior in a future release.
2614
2615 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2616
2617 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2618
2619 Security related changes:
2620
2621 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2622 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2623 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2624 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2625
2626 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2627 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2628
2629 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2630 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2631 Izbyshev.
2632
2633 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2634 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2635 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2636
2637 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2638
2639 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2640 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2641 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2642 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2643 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2644 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2645 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2646 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2647 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2648 14651
2649 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2650 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2651 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2652 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2653 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2654 conversion is given
2655 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2656 date
2657 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2658 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2659 scope with -O1 and higher
2660 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2661 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2662 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2663 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2664 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2665 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2666 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2667 horrible machine code)
2668 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2669 last constant.
2670 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2671 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2672 symbols
2673 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2674 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2675 defined
2676 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2677 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2678 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2679 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2680 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2681 fpscr.c'
2682 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2683 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2684 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2685 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2686 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2687 the base address
2688 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2689 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2690 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2691 open_verify
2692 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2693 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2694 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2695 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2696 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2697 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2698 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2699 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2700 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2701 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2702 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2703 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2704 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2705 dlopen
2706 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2707 AT_SECURE=1
2708 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2709 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2710 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2711 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2712 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2713 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2714 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2715 for Spanish with CLDR
2716 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2717 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2718 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2719 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2720 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2721 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2722 es_BO
2723 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2724 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2725 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2726 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2727 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2728 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2729 dlopen failures
2730 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2731 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2732 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2733 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2734 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2735 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2736 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2737 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2738 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2739 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2740 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2741 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2742 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2743 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2744 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2745 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2746 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2747 makecontext
2748 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2749 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2750 required
2751 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2752 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2753 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2754 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2755 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2756 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2757 disabled
2758 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2759 failure
2760 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2761 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2762 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2763 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2764 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2765 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2766 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2767 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2768 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2769 and libc build with -Os)
2770 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2771 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2772 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2773 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2774 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2775 that changes /etc/passwd
2776 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2777 (CVE-2018-11237)
2778 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2779 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2780 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2781 posix/regcomp.c
2782 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2783 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2784 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2785 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2786 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2787 AT_SECURE
2788 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2789 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2790 parser.c
2791 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2792 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2793 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2794 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2795 directed rounding
2796 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2797 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2798 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2799 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2800 lookup
2801 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2802 interposition
2803 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2804 DSO boundaries.
2805 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2806 <linux/time.h>
2807 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2808 checking
2809 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2810 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2811 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2812 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2813 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2814 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2815 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2816 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2817 processors
2818 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2819
2820 \f
2821 Version 2.27
2822
2823 Major new features:
2824
2825 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2826 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2827 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2828 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2829 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2830 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2831 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2832 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2833 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2834
2835 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2836 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2837 H.J. Lu from Intel.
2838
2839 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2840
2841 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2842
2843 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2844 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2845 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2846 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2847 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2848 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2849 from a security and performance perspective.
2850
2851 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2852 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2853 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2854 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2855
2856 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2857 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2858 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2859 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2860 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2861
2862 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2863 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2864 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2865 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2866 _Float128.
2867
2868 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2869 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2870 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2871
2872 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2873
2874 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2875 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2876 pkey_get.
2877
2878 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2879
2880 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2881
2882 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2883 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2884 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2885
2886 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2887 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2888 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2889 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2890 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2891 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2892 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2893
2894 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2895 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2896 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2897 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2898 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2899 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2900 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2901
2902 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2903 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2904 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2905 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2906 respectively.
2907
2908 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2909 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2910 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2911 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2912
2913 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2914 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2915 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2916
2917 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2918 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2919 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2920
2921 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2922 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2923 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2924
2925 - rv64imac lp64
2926 - rv64imafdc lp64
2927 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2928
2929 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2930
2931 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2932 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2933 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2934 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2935 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2936 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2937 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2938 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2939 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2940 fix this.
2941
2942 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2943 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2944 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2945
2946 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2947 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2948 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2949 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2950 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2951 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2952 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2953 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2954 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2955 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2956 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2957 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2958 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2959 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2960 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2961 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2962 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2963 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2964 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2965 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2966 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2967 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2968 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2969 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2970 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2971 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2972
2973 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2974 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2975
2976 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2977 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2978 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2979 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2980 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2981 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2982 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2983
2984 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2985 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2986 exp10l for these functions instead.
2987
2988 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2989 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2990 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2991
2992 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2993 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2994 ignored.
2995
2996 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2997 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2998 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2999 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3000
3001 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3002 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3003
3004 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3005 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3006
3007 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3008 programs.
3009
3010 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3011
3012 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3013 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3014 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3015 instead.
3016
3017 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3018 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3019 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3020 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3021 use, but predates the bits convention.
3022
3023 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3024
3025 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3026 subdirectory.
3027
3028 Security related changes:
3029
3030 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3031 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3032 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3033 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3034 script.)
3035
3036 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3037 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3038 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3039 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3040
3041 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3042 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3043 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3044 of service.
3045
3046 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3047 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3048 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3049
3050 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3051 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3052 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3053 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3054
3055 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3056 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3057 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3058 Qualys.
3059
3060 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3061 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3062 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3063 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3064 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3065
3066 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3067 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3068 current directory.
3069
3070 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3071 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3072 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3073
3074 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3075 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3076 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3077
3078 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3079 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3080 small, instead of NULL.
3081
3082 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3083
3084 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3085 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3086 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3087 locale
3088 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3089 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3090 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3091 cases
3092 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3093 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3094 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3095 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3096 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3097 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3098 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3099 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3100 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3101 "Bangla"
3102 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3103 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3104 width Latin characters
3105 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3106 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3107 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3108 letters
3109 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3110 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3111 (CVE-2009-5064)
3112 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3113 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3114 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3115 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3116 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3117 if malloc succeeded
3118 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3119 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3120 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3121 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3122 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3123 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3124 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3125 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3126 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3127 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3128 U+309A
3129 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3130 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3131 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3132 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3133 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3134 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3135 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3136 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3137 for Nicaragua
3138 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3139 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3140 are not found.
3141 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3142 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3143 access
3144 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3145 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3146 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3147 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3148 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3149 __regcall calling convention
3150 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3151 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3152 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3153 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3154 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3155 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3156 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3157 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3158 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3159 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3160 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3161 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3162 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3163 locale
3164 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3165 protector=all
3166 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3167 wcwidth
3168 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3169 consistency check failures
3170 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3171 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3172 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3173 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3174 PIE
3175 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3176 locales
3177 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3178 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3179 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3180 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3181 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3182 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3183 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3184 on memory allocation failure
3185 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3186 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3187 the suspect)
3188 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3189 default (i386)
3190 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3191 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3192 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3193 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3194 instead of EAI_NODATA
3195 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3196 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3197 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3198 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3199 implementation
3200 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3201 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3202 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3203 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3204 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3205 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3206 allocation in syscall loops)
3207 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3208 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3209 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3210 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3211 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3212 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3213 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3214 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3215 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3216 occur with -O3
3217 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3218 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3219 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3220 amounts)
3221 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3222 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3223 niu_NZ
3224 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3225 checks
3226 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3227 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3228 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3229 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3230 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3231 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3232 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3233 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3234 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3235 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3236 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3237 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3238 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3239 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3240 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3241 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3242 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3243 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3244 parsing after OOM
3245 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3246 object
3247 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3248 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3249 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3250 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3251 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3252 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3253 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3254 ppc64le
3255 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3256 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3257 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3258 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3259 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3260 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3261 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3262 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3263 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3264 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3265 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3266 math_force_eval
3267 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3268 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3269 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3270 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3271 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3272 the svid compat wrapper
3273 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3274 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3275 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3276 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3277 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3278 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3279 --verbose.
3280 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3281 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3282 to 2.26
3283 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3284 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3285 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3286 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3287 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3288 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3289 (CVE-2017-15804)
3290 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3291 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3292 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3293 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3294 failure."
3295 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3296 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3297 -m32
3298 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3299 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3300 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3301 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3302 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3303 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3304 inside the ASCII printable range
3305 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3306 -mlong-double-64
3307 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3308 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3309 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3310 Internet
3311 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3312 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3313 backslash
3314 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3315 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3316 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3317 heaps in an arena
3318 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3319 networking interface
3320 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3321 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3322 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3323 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3324 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3325 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3326 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3327 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3328 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3329 order
3330 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3331 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3332 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3333 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3334 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3335 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3336 same as for Croatian
3337 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3338 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3339 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3340 for initial thread"
3341 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3342 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3343 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3344 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3345 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3346 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3347 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3348 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3349 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3350 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3351 modified in case of success
3352 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3353 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3354 success
3355 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3356 stack-protector=all
3357 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3358 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3359 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3360 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3361 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3362 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3363 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3364 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3365 adding it on top
3366 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3367 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3368 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3369 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3370 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3371 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3372 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3373 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3374 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3375 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3376 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3377 elision and tunables
3378 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3379 "invalid" exception
3380 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3381 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3382 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3383 exception
3384 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3385 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3386 power4
3387 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3388 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3389 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3390 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3391 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3392 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3393 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3394 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3395 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3396
3397 \f
3398 Version 2.26
3399
3400 Major new features:
3401
3402 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3403 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3404 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3405 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3406 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3407 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3408 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3409
3410 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3411 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3412 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3413 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3414 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3415 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3416 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3417
3418 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3419 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3420 Egmont Koblinger.
3421
3422 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3423
3424 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3425 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3426 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3427
3428 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3429 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3430 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3431 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3432 object are still limited to six search domains.
3433
3434 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3435 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3436 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3437
3438 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3439 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3440
3441 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3442 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3443 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3444 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3445
3446 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3447 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3448 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3449 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3450
3451 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3452 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3453 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3454 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3455
3456 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3457 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3458 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3459
3460 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3461 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3462 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3463 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3464
3465 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3466 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3467 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3468 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3469 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3470
3471 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3472 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3473 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3474 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3475 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3476 interfaces should be used instead.
3477
3478 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3479
3480 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3481 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3482 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3483 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3484 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3485 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3486 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3487 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3488
3489 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3490 removed.
3491
3492 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3493 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3494 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3495 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3496
3497 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3498 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3499 default.
3500
3501 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3502 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3503 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3504 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3505 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3506
3507 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3508 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3509 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3510 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3511
3512 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3513 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3514 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3515 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3516
3517 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3518 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3519
3520 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3521 exported by accident.
3522
3523 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3524 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3525 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3526
3527 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3528 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3529 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3530 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3531
3532 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3533
3534 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3535
3536 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3537 free instead.
3538
3539 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3540 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3541
3542 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3543 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3544
3545 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3546 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3547 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3548 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3549 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3550 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3551 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3552 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3553
3554 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3555 synced with the kernel:
3556
3557 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3558 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3559
3560 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3561 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3562 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3563
3564 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3565 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3566
3567 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3568
3569 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3570 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3571 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3572
3573 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3574
3575 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3576 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3577
3578 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3579 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3580 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3581 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3582 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3583
3584 Security related changes:
3585
3586 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3587 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3588
3589 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3590 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3591
3592 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3593 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3594 (CVE-2010-3192).
3595
3596 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3597 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3598
3599 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3600
3601 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3602 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3603 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3604 fields
3605 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3606 (CVE-2010-3192)
3607 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3608 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3609 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3610 ld.bfd is available
3611 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3612 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3613 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3614 x86 and other generic code
3615 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3616 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3617 incorrect
3618 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3619 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3620 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3621 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3622 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3623 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3624 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3625 resolver
3626 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3627 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3628 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3629 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3630 chillu characters
3631 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3632 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3633 receiving data
3634 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3635 whitespace
3636 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3637 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3638 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3639 for Peru
3640 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3641 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3642 failures consistently
3643 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3644 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3645 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3646 frame-pointer on i386
3647 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3648 register
3649 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3650 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3651 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3652 generic c code is used
3653 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3654 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3655 around 4000
3656 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3657 (CVE-2017-12133)
3658 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3659 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3660 with -lieee
3661 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3662 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3663 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3664 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3665 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3666 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3667 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3668 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3669 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3670 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3671 remove()
3672 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3673 checked for errors.
3674 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3675 new posix_spawn implementation
3676 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3677 leads to lower CPU frequency
3678 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3679 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3680 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3681 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3682 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3683 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3684 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3685 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3686 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3687 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3688 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3689 not support gethostbyname4_r
3690 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3691 switching
3692 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3693 arenas
3694 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3695 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3696 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3697 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3698 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3699 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3700 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3701 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3702 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3703 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3704 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3705 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3706 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3707 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3708 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3709 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3710 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3711 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3712 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3713 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3714 retry value
3715 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3716 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3717 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3718 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3719 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3720 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3721 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3722 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3723 [21537] libc:
3724 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3725 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3726 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3727 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3728 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3729 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3730 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3731 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3732 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3733 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3734 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3735 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3736 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3737 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3738 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3739 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3740 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3741 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3742 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3743 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3744 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3745 issue on x86-64
3746 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3747 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3748 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3749 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3750 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3751 construction
3752 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3753 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3754 between_2_3
3755 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3756 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3757 conditions
3758 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3759 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3760 Hindi Locale
3761 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3762 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3763 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3764 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3765 locale
3766 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3767 leading to relocation crash
3768 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3769 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3770 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3771 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3772 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3773 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3774 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3775 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3776 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3777 locale
3778 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3779 locale
3780 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3781 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3782 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3783 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3784 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3785 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3786 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3787 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3788 strings
3789 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3790 protector=all
3791 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3792 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3793 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3794 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3795 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3796 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3797 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3798 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3799 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3800 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3801 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3802 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3803 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3804 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3805 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3806 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3807 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3808 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3809 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3810 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3811 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3812 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3813 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3814 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3815 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3816 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3817 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3818 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3819 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3820 with unicode 9.0
3821 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3822 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3823 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3824 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3825 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3826
3827 \f
3828 Version 2.25
3829
3830 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3831 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3832 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3833 Library.
3834
3835 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3836 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3837 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3838 the GNU C Library.
3839
3840 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3841 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3842 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3843 the GNU C Library.
3844
3845 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3846 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3847 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3848 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3849 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3850 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3851 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3852 will not.
3853
3854 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3855 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3856 many years.
3857
3858 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3859 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3860 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3861
3862 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3863 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3864 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3865 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3866 problem.
3867
3868 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3869 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3870 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3871
3872 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3873 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3874 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3875 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3876 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3877 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3878 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3879 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3880 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3881 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3882 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3883 WINT_WIDTH.
3884
3885 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3886
3887 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3888
3889 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3890 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3891 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3892
3893 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3894 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3895
3896 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3897 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3898
3899 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3900
3901 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3902
3903 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3904 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3905
3906 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3907
3908 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3909 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3910
3911 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3912 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3913
3914 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3915 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3916 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3917
3918 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3919 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3920 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3921 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3922 effects of the memory clear).
3923
3924 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3925 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3926 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3927 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3928
3929 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3930 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3931 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3932 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3933 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3934 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3935
3936 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3937 have been added.
3938
3939 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3940 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3941 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3942 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3943 as large as several megabytes.
3944
3945 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3946 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3947 been removed.
3948
3949 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3950 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3951 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3952 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3953 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3954 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3955 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3956
3957 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3958 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3959 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3960 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3961
3962 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3963 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3964 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3965 Internet.
3966
3967 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3968 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3969 They were already unimplemented.
3970
3971 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3972 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3973 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3974 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3975
3976 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3977 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3978 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3979 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3980 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3981
3982 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3983 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3984 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3985 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3986 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3987
3988 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3989 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3990 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3991 did not reflect that.
3992
3993 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3994 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3995 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3996 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3997 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3998 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3999 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4000 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4001
4002 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4003 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4004 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4005 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4006
4007 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4008 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4009 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4010 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4011
4012 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4013 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4014 guarantees.
4015
4016 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4017 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4018 make state changes.
4019
4020 Security related changes:
4021
4022 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4023 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4024 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4025 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4026 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4027
4028 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4029 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4030 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4031 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4032 (CVE-2015-5180)
4033
4034 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4035
4036 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4037 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4038 protector-all
4039 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4040 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4041 before it started waiting
4042 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4043 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4044 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4045 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4046 wrong type
4047 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4048 library linked with pthread
4049 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4050 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4051 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4052 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4053 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4054 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4055 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4056 when it shouldn't
4057 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4058 not
4059 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4060 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4061 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4062 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4063 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4064 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4065 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4066 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4067 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4068 termination
4069 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4070 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4071 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4072 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4073 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4074 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4075 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4076 causes a segmentation fault
4077 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4078 linking
4079 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4080 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4081 uninitialized GOT
4082 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4083 versions
4084 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4085 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4086 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4087 is always true.
4088 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4089 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4090 modes
4091 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4092 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4093 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4094 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4095 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4096 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4097 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4098 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4099 libpthread.a
4100 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4101 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4102 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4103 _res_hconf
4104 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4105 information.
4106 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4107 penalty
4108 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4109 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4110 cause transition penalty
4111 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4112 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4113 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4114 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4115 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4116 mcount.oS)
4117 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4118 Checking
4119 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4120 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4121 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4122 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4123 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4124 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4125 multi-arch
4126 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4127 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4128 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4129 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4130 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4131 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4132 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4133 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4134 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4135 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4136 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4137 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4138 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4139 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4140 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4141 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4142 glibc
4143 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4144 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4145 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4146 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4147 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4148 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4149 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4150 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4151 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4152 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4153 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4154 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4155 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4156 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4157 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4158 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4159 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4160 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4161 RES_USE_INET6
4162 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4163 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4164 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4165 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4166 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4167 wrong condition
4168 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4169 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4170 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4171 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4172 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4173 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4174 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4175 clang
4176 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4177 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4178 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4179 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4180 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4181 \f
4182 Version 2.24
4183
4184 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4185 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4186 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4187 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4188 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4189 architectures.
4190
4191 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4192 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4193 been included in previous releases.
4194
4195 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4196 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4197
4198 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4199 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4200 instead of “union wait”.
4201
4202 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4203 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4204 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4205 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4206 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4207 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4208 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4209
4210 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4211 API.
4212
4213 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4214 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4215 drop it.
4216
4217 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4218 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4219 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4220 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4221 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4222 extensions.
4223
4224 Security related changes:
4225
4226 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4227 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4228 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4229
4230 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4231 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4232 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4233 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4234
4235 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4236 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4237 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4238
4239 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4240 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4241 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4242
4243 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4244 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4245 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4246 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4247
4248 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4249
4250 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4251 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4252 of MS-DOS.
4253 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4254 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4255 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4256 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4257 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4258 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4259 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4260 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4261 CLDR data
4262 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4263 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4264 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4265 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4266 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4267 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4268 romanisation
4269 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4270 and +/-
4271 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4272 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4273 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4274 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4275 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4276 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4277 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4278 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4279 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4280 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4281 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4282 all locales
4283 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4284 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4285 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4286 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4287 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4288 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4289 execute
4290 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4291 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4292 -Wsystem-headers
4293 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4294 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4295 Romanian locale data
4296 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4297 symbol
4298 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4299 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4300 language
4301 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4302 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4303 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4304 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4305 machine
4306 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4307 description
4308 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4309 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4310 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4311 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4312 when using RTLD_NEXT
4313 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4314 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4315 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4316 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4317 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4318 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4319 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4320 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4321 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4322 Excavator core
4323 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4324 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4325 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4326 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4327 double range
4328 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4329 part zero incorrect
4330 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4331 equality tests
4332 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4333 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4334 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4335 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4336 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4337 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4338 glibc-2.22
4339 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4340 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4341 'tst-numeric.c'
4342 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4343 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4344 low part
4345 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4346 result
4347 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4348 unaligned stack
4349 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4350 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4351 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4352 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4353 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4354 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4355 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4356 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4357 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4358 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4359 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4360 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4361 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4362 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4363 modes
4364 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4365 server addresses
4366 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4367 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4368 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4369 response to getaddrinfo
4370 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4371 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4372 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4373 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4374 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4375 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4376 sometimes incorrect
4377 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4378 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4379 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4380 record types
4381 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4382 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4383 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4384 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4385 (CVE-2016-3075)
4386 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4387 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4388 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4389 resolving symbols
4390 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4391 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4392 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4393 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4394 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4395 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4396 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4397 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4398 gethosts
4399 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4400 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4401 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4402 (CVE-2016-3706)
4403 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4404 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4405 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4406 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4407 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4408 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4409 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4410 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4411 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4412 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4413 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4414 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4415 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4416 executable
4417 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4418 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4419 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4420 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4421 XPG3
4422 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4423 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4424 (CVE-2016-4429)
4425 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4426 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4427 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4428 AS not supporting AVX512
4429 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4430 sNaN argument
4431 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4432 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4433 argument
4434 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4435 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4436 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4437 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4438 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4439 eax=0x80000001
4440 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4441 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4442 subnormals
4443 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4444 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4445 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4446 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4447 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4448 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4449 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4450 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4451 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4452 input
4453 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4454 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4455 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4456 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4457 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4458 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4459 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4460 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4461 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4462 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4463 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4464 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4465 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4466 double rounding
4467 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4468 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4469 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4470 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4471 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4472 (Only arm/linux)
4473 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4474 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4475 fallbacks
4476 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4477 "invalid" exceptions
4478 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4479 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4480 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4481 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4482 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4483 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4484 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4485 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4486 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4487 \f
4488 Version 2.23
4489
4490 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4491 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4492 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4493 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4494 89, 16061, and 18568.
4495
4496 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4497 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4498 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4499 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4500 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4501 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4502 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4503
4504 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4505 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4506 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4507
4508 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4509 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4510 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4511 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4512 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4513 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4514 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4515
4516 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4517 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4518 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4519 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4520 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4521 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4522 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4523 Ericsson.)
4524
4525 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4526 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4527 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4528 independent of the GNU C Library.
4529
4530 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4531 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4532
4533 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4534 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4535 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4536 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4537 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4538 Linux kernel.
4539
4540 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4541 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4542
4543 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4544 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4545 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4546 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4547 defining their own copy.
4548
4549 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4550 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4551 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4552
4553 Security related changes:
4554
4555 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4556 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4557
4558 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4559 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4560 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4561 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4562 (CVE-2015-8777)
4563
4564 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4565 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4566
4567 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4568 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4569
4570 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4571 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4572 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4573
4574 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4575 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4576 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4577 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4578 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4579 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4580 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4581 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4582 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4583 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4584 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4585 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4586 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4587
4588 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4589
4590 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4591 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4592 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4593 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4594 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4595 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4596 use `mkstemp'
4597 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4598 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4599 overflow/underflow errors
4600 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4601 overflow/underflow
4602 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4603 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4604 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4605 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4606 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4607 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4608 are not contiguous
4609 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4610 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4611 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4612 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4613 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4614 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4615 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4616 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4617 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4618 all exceptions
4619 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4620 arguments
4621 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4622 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4623 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4624 should include
4625 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4626 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4627 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4628 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4629 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4630 GNU/Linux
4631 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4632 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4633 arguments
4634 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4635 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4636 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4637 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4638 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4639 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4640 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4641 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4642 rounding results
4643 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4644 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4645 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4646 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4647 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4648 fails
4649 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4650 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4651 block boundary
4652 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4653 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4654 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4655 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4656 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4657 4.7?
4658 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4659 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4660 (related to lock elision)
4661 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4662 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4663 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4664 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4665 (CVE-2015-8779)
4666 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4667 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4668 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4669 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4670 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4671 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4672 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4673 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4674 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4675 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4676 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4677 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4678 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4679 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4680 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4681 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4682 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4683 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4684 contains a vector instruction exception.
4685 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4686 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4687 locales
4688 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4689 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4690 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4691 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4692 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4693 missing break ?
4694 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4695 32bit processes
4696 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4697 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4698 infinity
4699 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4700 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4701 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4702 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4703 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4704 be forced unloaded
4705 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4706 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4707 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4708 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4709 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4710 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4711 statically too large
4712 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4713 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4714 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4715 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4716 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4717 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4718 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4719 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4720 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4721 FUTEX_SHARED
4722 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4723 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4724 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4725 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4726 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4727 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4728 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4729 opendir()
4730 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4731 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4732 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4733 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4734 signgam
4735 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4736 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4737 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4738 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4739 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4740 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4741 dependencies
4742 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4743 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4744 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4745 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4746 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4747 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4748 (CVE-2015-8776)
4749 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4750 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4751 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4752 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4753 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4754 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4755 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4756 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4757 contention
4758 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4759 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4760 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4761 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4762 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4763 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4764 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4765 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4766 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4767 rounding modes
4768 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4769 ILP32
4770 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4771 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4772 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4773 threshold
4774 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4775 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4776 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4777 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4778 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4779 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4780 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4781 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4782 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4783 pthread_setaffinity_np
4784 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4785 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4786 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4787 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4788 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4789 prelink
4790 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4791 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4792 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4793 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4794 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4795 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4796 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4797 bits/mathcalls.h
4798 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4799 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4800 for C99-based standards
4801 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4802 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4803 math-only
4804 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4805 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4806 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4807 disabled
4808 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4809 "inexact" exceptions
4810 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4811 arguments
4812 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4813 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4814 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4815 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4816 rules
4817 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4818 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4819 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4820 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4821 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4822 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4823 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4824 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4825 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4826 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4827 from 32bit
4828 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4829 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4830 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4831 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4832 subnormals
4833 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4834 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4835 error on 32-bit architectures
4836 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4837 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4838 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4839 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4840 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4841 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4842 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4843 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4844 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4845 -Os
4846 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4847 CPU's.
4848 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4849 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4850 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4851 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4852 architectures
4853 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4854 \f
4855 Version 2.22
4856
4857 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4858
4859 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4860 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4861 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4862 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4863 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4864 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4865 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4866 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4867 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4868 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4869 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4870 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4871 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4872 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4873 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4874 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4875 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4876 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4877 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4878 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4879
4880 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4881 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4882
4883 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4884 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4885 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4886 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4887 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4888 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4889
4890 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4891 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4892 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4893 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4894 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4895
4896 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4897 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4898 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4899
4900 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4901 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4902 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4903 17998.
4904
4905 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4906 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4907 condition in some applications.
4908
4909 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4910 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4911 pow, powf.
4912 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4913 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4914 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4915 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4916 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4917
4918 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4919 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4920 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4921 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4922
4923 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4924 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4925 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4926
4927 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4928 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4929
4930 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4931 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4932 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4933
4934 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4935 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4936 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4937 \f
4938 Version 2.21
4939
4940 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4941
4942 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4943 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4944 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4945 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4946 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4947 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4948 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4949 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4950 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4951 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4952 17892.
4953
4954 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4955 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4956 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4957 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4958 intended.
4959
4960 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4961 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4962 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4963 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4964 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4965 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4966
4967 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4968
4969 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4970 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4971 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4972
4973 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4974 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4975 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4976 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4977 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4978 effects being visible outside transactions.
4979
4980 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4981 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4982
4983 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4984
4985 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4986 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4987 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4988 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4989 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4990
4991 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4992 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4993
4994 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4995 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4996 format.
4997
4998 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4999 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5000 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5001
5002 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5003 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5004
5005 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5006
5007 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5008 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5009 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5010 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5011
5012 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5013 with newer versions of bison.
5014
5015 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5016 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5017 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5018 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5019 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5020 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5021 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5022 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5023 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5024 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5025 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5026 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5027 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5028
5029 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5030 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5031 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5032 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5033 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5034 \f
5035 Version 2.20
5036
5037 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5038
5039 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5040 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5041 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5042 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5043 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5044 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5045 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5046 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5047 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5048 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5049 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5050 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5051 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5052 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5053 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5054
5055 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5056 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5057 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5058 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5059 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5060 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5061 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5062 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5063 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5064 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5065
5066 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5067 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5068 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5069 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5070 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5071
5072 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5073
5074 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5075 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5076
5077 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5078 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5079 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5080 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5081 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5082 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5083
5084 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5085 from ports.
5086
5087 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5088 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5089 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5090 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5091 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5092 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5093 test macros defined.
5094
5095 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5096
5097 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5098 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5099 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5100 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5101 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5102 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5103 is not built.
5104
5105 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5106 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5107 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5108 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5109 invocation.
5110
5111 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5112 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5113 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5114
5115 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5116 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5117 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5118 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5119
5120 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5121 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5122 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5123 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5124 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5125 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5126 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5127 additional checks.
5128
5129 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5130 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5131 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5132 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5133 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5134 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5135 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5136 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5137 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5138
5139 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5140 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5141 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5142 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5143 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5144 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5145
5146 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5147 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5148 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5149 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5150 \f
5151 Version 2.19
5152
5153 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5154
5155 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5156 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5157 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5158 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5159 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5160 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5161 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5162 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5163 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5164 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5165 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5166 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5167 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5168 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5169 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5170 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5171 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5172 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5173
5174 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5175 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5176
5177 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5178 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5179 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5180 extension which uses __block.
5181
5182 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5183 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5184 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5185 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5186 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5187
5188 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5189 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5190 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5191 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5192 if malloc fails.
5193
5194 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5195 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5196 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5197 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5198 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5199
5200 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5201 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5202 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5203
5204 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5205 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5206 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5207 #15856, #15857).
5208
5209 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5210 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5211
5212 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5213 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5214
5215 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5216
5217 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5218 supported locales.
5219
5220 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5221
5222 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5223
5224 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5225 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5226 for which the C library was built.
5227
5228 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5229 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5230 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5231 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5232 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5233 in the following circumstances:
5234
5235 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5236
5237 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5238 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5239
5240 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5241 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5242
5243 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5244 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5245
5246 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5247
5248 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5249 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5250
5251 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5252
5253 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5254
5255 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5256
5257 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5258 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5259 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5260 disable some of those declarations.
5261
5262 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5263 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5264 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5265
5266 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5267 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5268
5269 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5270 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5271 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5272 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5273 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5274 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5275 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5276 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5277 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5278 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5279 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5280 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5281 require recompilation.
5282 \f
5283 Version 2.18
5284
5285 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5286
5287 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5288 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5289 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5290 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5291 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5292 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5293 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5294 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5295 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5296 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5297 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5298 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5299 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5300 15755, 15759.
5301
5302 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5303 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5304 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5305 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5306 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5307 understands and accepts the risks.
5308
5309 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5310 #15078).
5311
5312 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5313 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5314
5315 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5316 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5317 destructor calls to glibc.
5318
5319 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5320 output.
5321
5322 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5323 non-x86 architectures.
5324
5325 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5326
5327 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5328
5329 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5330 Richard Henderson.
5331
5332 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5333
5334 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5335 Richard Henderson.
5336
5337 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5338 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5339
5340 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5341
5342 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5343 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5344
5345 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5346 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5347
5348 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5349 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5350 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5351
5352 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5353 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5354 attributes of a process.
5355
5356 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5357 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5358 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5359 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5360 mutexes.
5361
5362 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5363 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5364
5365 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5366 \f
5367 Version 2.17
5368
5369 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5370
5371 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5372 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5373 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5374 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5375 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5376 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5377 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5378 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5379 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5380 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5381 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5382 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5383 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5384 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5385 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5386
5387 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5388
5389 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5390 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5391
5392 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5393 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5394
5395 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5396
5397 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5398 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5399 zEnterprise z196.
5400 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5401
5402 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5403 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5404 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5405
5406 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5407 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5408
5409 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5410 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5411
5412 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5413 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5414
5415 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5416 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5417
5418 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5419 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5420 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5421 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5422
5423 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5424 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5425
5426 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5427 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5428 default.
5429
5430 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5431 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5432 information in --help and --version output.
5433
5434 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5435 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5436 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5437
5438 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5439 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5440 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5441 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5442 when the mode is enabled.
5443
5444 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5445 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5446 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5447 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5448 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5449 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5450 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5451
5452 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5453 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
5454 \f
5455 Version 2.16
5456
5457 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5458
5459 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5460 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5461 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5462 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5463 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5464 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5465 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5466 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5467 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5468 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5469 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5470 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5471 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5472 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5473 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5474 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5475 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5476 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5477 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5478 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5479 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5480 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5481 14277, 14278.
5482
5483 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5484 configuring glibc with:
5485 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5486 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5487 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5488
5489 * ISO C11 support:
5490
5491 + define static_assert
5492
5493 + do not declare gets
5494
5495 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5496
5497 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5498 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5499 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5500 implementation.
5501
5502 + timespec_get added
5503
5504 + uchar.h support added
5505
5506 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5507
5508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5509
5510 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5511
5512 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5513
5514 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5515 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5516
5517 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5518 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5519
5520 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5521 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5522 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5523 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5524 existing applications.
5525
5526 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5527 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5528 before 2.6.
5529
5530 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5531 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5532 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5533
5534 * New locales: mag_IN
5535
5536 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5537 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5538 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5539 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5540 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5541
5542 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5543
5544 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5545 and Will Schmidt.
5546
5547 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5548
5549 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5550 without a previously built glibc.
5551
5552 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5553 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5554
5555 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5556 now supported for ARM processors.
5557
5558 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5559 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5560 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5561
5562 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5563
5564 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5565 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5566 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5567 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5568
5569 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5570 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5571 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5572 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5573
5574 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5575 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5576 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5577 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5578 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5579
5580 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5581 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5582 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5583 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5584 \f
5585 Version 2.15
5586
5587 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5588
5589 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5590 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5591 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5592 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5593 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5594 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5595 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5596
5597 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5598 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5599
5600 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5601 and support for initgroups lookups.
5602 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5603
5604 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5605 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5606
5607 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5608 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5609
5610 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5611 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5612 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5613
5614 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5615 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5616
5617 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5618 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5619 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5620
5621 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5622 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5623
5624 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5625 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5626
5627 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5628 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5629
5630 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5631 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5632
5633 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5634 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5635
5636 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5637 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5638
5639 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5640
5641 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5642 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5643
5644 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5645 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5646
5647 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5648 \f
5649 Version 2.14
5650
5651 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5652
5653 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5654 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5655 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5656 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5657 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5658 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5659 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5660 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5661 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5662 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5663
5664 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5665 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5666 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5667 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5668
5669 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5670 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5671 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5672 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5673
5674 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5675 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5676
5677 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5678 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5679
5680 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5681
5682 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5683 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5684
5685 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5686 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5687 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5688 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5689 \f
5690 Version 2.13
5691
5692 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5693
5694 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5695 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5696 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5697 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5698 12378, 12394, 12397
5699
5700 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5701
5702 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5703
5704 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5705 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5706 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5707 \f
5708 Version 2.12
5709
5710 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5711
5712 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5713 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5714 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5715 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5716 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5717 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5718 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5719 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5720
5721 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5722
5723 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5724
5725 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5726
5727 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5728 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5729 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5730
5731 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5732 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5733 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5734 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5735 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5736
5737 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5738 \f
5739 Version 2.11
5740
5741 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5742
5743 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5744 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5745 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5746 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5747 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5748 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5749
5750 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5751 mkostemps64
5752 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5753
5754 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5755 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5756
5757 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5758 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5759
5760 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5761
5762 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5763 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5764 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5765 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5766
5767 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5768 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5769
5770 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5771 strstr, strcasestr.
5772 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5773
5774 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5775 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5776
5777 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5778 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5779
5780 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5781 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5782
5783 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5784 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5785 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5786 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5787 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5788 necessity is every process again.
5789 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5790
5791 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5792 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5793
5794 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5795 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5796
5797 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5798 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5799 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5800
5801 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5802 \f
5803 Version 2.10
5804
5805 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5806
5807 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5808 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5809 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5810 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5811 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5812
5813 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5814 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5815
5816 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5817 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5818
5819 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5820 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5821
5822 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5823 now in POSIX.
5824
5825 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5826 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5827
5828 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5829 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5830
5831 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5832 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5833
5834 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5835 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5836
5837 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5838 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5839 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5840
5841 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5842
5843 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5845
5846 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5847 and extend existing format specifiers.
5848 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5849
5850 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5852
5853 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5854 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5855 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5856 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5857 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5858 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5859 \f
5860 Version 2.9
5861
5862 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5863
5864 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5865 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5866 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5867 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5868 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5869
5870 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5871 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5872
5873 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5874 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5875
5876 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5877 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5878
5879 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5880 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5882
5883 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5884 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5885
5886 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5887
5888 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5889 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5890
5891 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5892 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5893 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5894 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5895
5896 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5897 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5898
5899 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5900 Sinhala)
5901 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5902
5903 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5904 \f
5905 Version 2.8
5906
5907 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5908
5909 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5910 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5911 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5912 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5913 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5914 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5915 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5916
5917 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5918
5919 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5920
5921 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5922 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5923
5924 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5925
5926 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5927 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5928
5929 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5930 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5931
5932 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5933 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5934 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5935
5936 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5937 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5938
5939 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5940 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5941
5942 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5943 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5944
5945 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
5946 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5947 \f
5948 Version 2.7
5949
5950 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5951
5952 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5953 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5954 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5955 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5956 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5957
5958 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5959 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5960
5961 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5962
5963 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5964 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5965 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5966
5967 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5968 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5969
5970 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5971 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5972
5973 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5974
5975 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5976 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5977
5978 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5979 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5980
5981 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5982 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5983
5984 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5985
5986 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5987 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5988
5989 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5990 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5991 yo_NG.
5992
5993 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5994 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5995 \f
5996 Version 2.6
5997
5998 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5999
6000 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6001 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6002 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6003 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6004 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6005 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6006 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6007 4702, 4858
6008
6009 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6010
6011 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6012
6013 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6014 \f
6015 Version 2.5
6016
6017 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6018
6019 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6020 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6021 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6022 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6023 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6024 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6025 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6026 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6027 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6028
6029 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6030 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6031 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6032
6033 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6034 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6035
6036 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6037
6038 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6039
6040 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6041 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6042 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6043 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6044 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6045
6046 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6047 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6048 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6049 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6050
6051 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6052 Ulrich Drepper.
6053
6054 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6055
6056 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6057 Ulrich Drepper.
6058
6059 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6060
6061 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6062 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6063 \f
6064 Version 2.4
6065
6066 * More overflow detection functions.
6067
6068 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6069 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6070
6071 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6072 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6073 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6074 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6075 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6076 by Masahide Washizawa.
6077
6078 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6079 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6080
6081 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6082 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6083 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6084 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6085
6086 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6087 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6088
6089 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6090
6091 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6092 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6093 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6094
6095 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6096 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6097
6098 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6099 for compatibility with some other systems.
6100
6101 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6102 \f
6103 Version 2.3.6
6104
6105 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6106
6107 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6108 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6109 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6110 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6111 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6112 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6113
6114 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6115
6116 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6117
6118 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6119 \f
6120 Version 2.3.5
6121
6122 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6123
6124 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6125 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6126 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6127 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6128
6129 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6130 \f
6131 Version 2.3.4
6132
6133 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6134 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6135
6136 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6137 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6138 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6139
6140 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6141 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6142
6143 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6144 efficiently.
6145 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6146
6147 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6148 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6149 handling data.
6150
6151 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6152 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6153 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6154
6155 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6156 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6157
6158 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6159 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6160 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6161 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6162
6163 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6164 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6165 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6166 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6167
6168 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6169 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6170 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6171 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6172 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6173 \f
6174 Version 2.3.3
6175
6176 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6177 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6178
6179 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6180 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6181
6182 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6183 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6184
6185 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6186 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6187
6188 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6189 by Roland McGrath.
6190
6191 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6192 and Ulrich Drepper.
6193
6194 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6195 RFC 3484.
6196 \f
6197 Version 2.3.2
6198
6199 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6200 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6201 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6202 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6203 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6204 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6205 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6206 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6207 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6208
6209 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6210 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6211 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6212
6213 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6214
6215 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6216 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6217
6218 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6219 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6220
6221 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6222
6223 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6224 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6225
6226 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6227 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6228 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6229 of weak definition in ld.so.
6230
6231 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6232 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6233
6234 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6235 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6236 \f
6237 Version 2.3
6238
6239 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6240 charsets.
6241
6242 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6243 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6244
6245 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6246 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6247
6248 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6249 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6250
6251 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6252 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6253 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6254
6255 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6256 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6257
6258 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6259 implementation of regex.
6260
6261 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6262 Unicode 3.2.
6263
6264 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6265 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6266
6267 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6268 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6269 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6270
6271 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6272 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6273
6274 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6275 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6276 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6277
6278 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6279 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6280
6281 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6282 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6283 and Ulrich Drepper.
6284
6285 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6286 \f
6287 Version 2.2.6
6288
6289 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6290 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6291
6292 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6293 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6294 \f
6295 Version 2.2.5
6296
6297 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6298 128-bit long double format.
6299
6300 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6301 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6302
6303 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6304
6305 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6306
6307 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6308 as well.
6309
6310 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6311 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6312
6313 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6314 \f
6315 Version 2.2.4
6316
6317 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6318 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6319
6320 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6321 support Unicode 3.1.
6322
6323 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6324 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6325
6326 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6327
6328 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6329 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6330 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6331
6332 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6333 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6334
6335 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6336 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6337
6338 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6339 \f
6340 Version 2.2.3
6341
6342 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6343 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6344 in float, double, and long double format.
6345
6346 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6347 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6348 128-bit long double format.
6349
6350 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6351 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6352 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6353 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6354
6355 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6356 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6357 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6358
6359 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6360 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6361
6362 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6363 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6364
6365 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6366 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6367 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6368
6369 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6370 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6371
6372 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6373 of functions for Linux/x86.
6374
6375 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6376 \f
6377 Version 2.2.2
6378
6379 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6380 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6381 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6382 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6383 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6384 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6385 other headers.
6386
6387 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6388 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6389
6390 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6391 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6392 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6393 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6394
6395 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6396 locales. While
6397
6398 locale -a
6399
6400 only lists the names of the supported locales
6401
6402 locale -a --verbose
6403
6404 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6405 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6406 \f
6407 Version 2.2.1
6408
6409 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6410 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6411 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6412 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6413 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6414
6415 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6416
6417 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6418
6419 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6420
6421 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6422 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6423 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6424
6425 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6426 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6427
6428 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6429 changed from the default "C" locale.
6430
6431 * The usual bug fixes.
6432 \f
6433 Version 2.2
6434
6435 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6436 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6437 is in progress.
6438
6439 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6440
6441 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6442
6443 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6444 obviously requires a database library being available.
6445
6446 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6447
6448 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6449
6450 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6451 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6452
6453 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6454
6455 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6456 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6457 and Mark Kettenis.
6458
6459 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6460 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6461 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6462
6463 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6464 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6465
6466 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6467 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6468 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6469
6470 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6471 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6472 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6473 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6474
6475 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6476 structures for the wide character tables.
6477
6478 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6479
6480 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6481
6482 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6483
6484 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6485 and Yutaka Niibe.
6486
6487 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6488
6489 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6490
6491 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6492
6493 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6494
6495 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6496
6497 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6498 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6499 implemented for Linux.
6500
6501 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6502 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6503 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6504 versions.
6505
6506 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6507 Masahide Washizawa.
6508
6509 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6510 \f
6511 Version 2.1.3
6512
6513 * bug fixes
6514
6515 \f
6516 Version 2.1.2
6517
6518 * bug fixes
6519
6520 \f
6521 Version 2.1.1
6522
6523 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6524
6525 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6526
6527 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6528
6529 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6530
6531 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6532
6533 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6534
6535 * Update timezone data files.
6536
6537 * lots of charmaps corrections
6538
6539 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6540
6541 \f
6542 Version 2.1
6543
6544 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6545 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6546 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6547 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6548 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6549 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6550
6551 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6552 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6553
6554 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6555 symbol level.
6556
6557 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6558 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6559
6560 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6561
6562 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6563 numbers.
6564
6565 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6566
6567 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6568 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6569
6570 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6571 library.
6572
6573 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6574 functions from ISO C 9X.
6575
6576 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6577 real valued functions.
6578
6579 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6580
6581 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6582
6583 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6584
6585 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6586
6587 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6588
6589 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6590
6591 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6592
6593 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6594 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6595
6596 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6597 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6598
6599 user system wall
6600
6601 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6602
6603 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6604
6605 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6606
6607 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6608
6609 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6610
6611 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6612
6613 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6614 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6615 horribly slow.
6616
6617 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6618 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6619
6620 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6621
6622 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6623
6624 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6625 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6626
6627 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6628
6629 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6630 Bambrough.
6631
6632 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6633 latest draft standards.
6634
6635 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6636
6637 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6638 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6639 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6640 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6641 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6642 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6643 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6644 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6645 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6646 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6647 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6648 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6649 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6650 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6651 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6652 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6653 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6654 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6655 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6656 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6657 cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6658 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6659 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6660 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6661 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6662 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6663 capget NEW: kernel
6664 capset NEW: kernel
6665 carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6666 cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6667 cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6668 casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6669 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6670 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6671 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6672 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6673 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6674 catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6675 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6676 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6677 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6678 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6679 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6680 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6681 ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6682 ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6683 ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6684 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6685 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6686 ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6687 cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6688 cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6689 cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6690 cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6691 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6692 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6693 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6694 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6695 clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6696 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6697 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6698 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6699 clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6700 clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6701 conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6702 conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6703 conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6704 cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6705 cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6706 cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6707 cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6708 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6709 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6710 creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6711 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6712 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6713 creat64 NEW: LFS
6714 csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6715 csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6716 csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6717 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6718 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6719 csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6720 csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6721 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6722 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6723 ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6724 ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6725 ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6726 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6727 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6728 ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6729 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6730 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6731 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6732 exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6733 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6734 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6735 exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6736 exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6737 exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6738 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6739 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6740 fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6741 fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6742 fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6743 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6744 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6745 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6746 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6747 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6748 feof_locked REMOVED
6749 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6750 ferror_locked REMOVED
6751 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6752 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6753 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6754 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6755 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6756 fflush_locked REMOVED
6757 ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6758 ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6759 fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6760 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6761 fileno_locked REMOVED
6762 fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6763 fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6764 fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6765 fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6766 fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6767 fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6768 fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6769 fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6770 fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
6771 fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
6772 fopen64 NEW: LFS
6773 fputc_locked REMOVED
6774 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6775 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6776 freopen64 NEW: LFS
6777 fseeko NEW: Unix98
6778 fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6779 fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6780 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6781 fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6782 ftello NEW: Unix98
6783 ftello64 NEW: LFS
6784 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6785 ftw64 NEW: LFS
6786 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6787 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6788 gamma_r REMOVED
6789 gammaf_r REMOVED
6790 gammal_r REMOVED
6791 getchar_locked REMOVED
6792 getdate NEW: Unix98
6793 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6794 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6795 getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6796 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6797 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6798 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6799 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6800 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6801 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6802 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6803 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6804 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6805 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6806 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6807 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6808 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6809 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6810 iconv NEW: iconv
6811 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6812 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6813 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6814 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6815 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6816 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6817 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6818 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6819 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6820 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6821 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6822 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6823 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6824 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6825 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6826 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6827 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6828 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6829 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6830 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6831 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6832 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6833 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6834 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6835 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6836 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6837 log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6838 log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6839 log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6840 lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6841 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6842 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6843 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6844 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6845 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6846 lseek64 NEW: LFS
6847 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6848 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6849 mmap64 NEW: LFS
6850 moncontrol REMOVED
6851 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6852 nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6853 nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6854 nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6855 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6856 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6857 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6858 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6859 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6860 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6861 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6862 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6863 nftw NEW: Unix98
6864 nftw64 NEW: LFS
6865 open64 NEW: LFS
6866 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6867 pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6868 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6869 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6870 pread NEW: Unix98
6871 pread64 NEW: LFS
6872 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6873 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6874 profil_counter REMOVED
6875 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6876 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6877 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6878 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6879 putc_locked REMOVED
6880 putchar_locked REMOVED
6881 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6882 putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6883 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6884 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6885 pwrite NEW: Unix98
6886 pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6887 readdir64 NEW: LFS
6888 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6889 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6890 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6891 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6892 round NEW: ISO C 9x
6893 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6894 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6895 rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6896 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6897 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6898 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6899 scandir64 NEW: LFS
6900 sendfile NEW: kernel
6901 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6902 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6903 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6904 sighold NEW: Unix98
6905 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6906 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6907 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6908 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6909 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6910 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6911 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6912 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6913 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6914 statfs64 NEW: LFS
6915 statvfs NEW: Unix98
6916 statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6917 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6918 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6919 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6920 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6921 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6922 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6923 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6924 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6925 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6926 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6927 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6928 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6929 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6930 tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6931 trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6932 truncate64 NEW: LFS
6933 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6934 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6935 umount2 NEW: kernel
6936 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6937 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6938 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6939 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6940 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6941 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6942 waitid NEW: Unix98
6943 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6944 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6945 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6946 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6947 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6948 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6949 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6950 wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6951 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6952 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6953 write_profiling REMOVED
6954 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6955 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6956 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6957 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6958 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6959 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6960 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6961 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6962 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6963 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6964 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6965 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6966 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6967 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6968 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6969 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6970 \f
6971 Version 2.0.6
6972
6973 * more bug fixes
6974
6975 \f
6976 Version 2.0.5
6977
6978 * more bug fixes
6979
6980 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6981
6982 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6983
6984 * rewrite of cbrt function
6985
6986 * update of timezone data
6987 \f
6988 Version 2.0.4
6989
6990 * more bug fixes
6991 \f
6992 Version 2.0.3
6993
6994 * more bug fixes
6995 \f
6996 Version 2.0.2
6997
6998 * more bug fixes
6999
7000 * add atoll function
7001
7002 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7003
7004 * fix math functions
7005 \f
7006 Version 2.0.1
7007
7008 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7009
7010 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7011
7012 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7013 the ELF dynamic loader.
7014
7015 * support for parallel builds is improved
7016 \f
7017 Version 2.0
7018
7019 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7020 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7021 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7022
7023 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7024 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7025 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7026 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7027 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7028 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7029 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7030 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7031 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7032 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7033 files in the ELF format.
7034
7035 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7036 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7037
7038 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7039 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7040 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7041 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7042 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7043 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7044 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7045 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7046 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7047 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7048 about dynamically linked binaries.
7049
7050 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7051 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7052 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7053 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7054 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7055
7056 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7057 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7058 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7059 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7060 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7061
7062 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7063
7064 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7065 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7066 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7067 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7068 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7069 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7070 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7071 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7072 NSS services available.
7073
7074 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7075 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7076 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7077
7078 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7079 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7080 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7081
7082 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7083 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7084 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7085 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7086
7087 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7088 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7089 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7090
7091 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7092 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7093 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7094
7095 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7096 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7097
7098 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7099 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7100 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7101 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7102
7103 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7104 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7105 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7106
7107 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7108 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7109 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7110 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7111 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7112 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7113 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7114 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7115
7116 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7117 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7118 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7119 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7120 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7121 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7122 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7123
7124 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7125 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7126 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7127 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7128 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7129 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7130
7131 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7132 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7133
7134 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7135 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7136 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7137
7138 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7139
7140 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7141 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7142 their use is discouraged.
7143
7144 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7145 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7146
7147 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7148 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7149
7150 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7151 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7152
7153 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7154 see <dirent.h>.
7155
7156 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7157 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7158 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7159 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7160 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7161
7162 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7163 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7164 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7165 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7166
7167 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7168 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7169
7170 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7171 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7172 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7173 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7174 number generator.
7175
7176 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7177 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7178
7179 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7180 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7181
7182 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7183 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7184 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7185 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7186
7187 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7188
7189 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7190 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7191 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7192
7193 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7194 for arithmetic and string handling.
7195
7196 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7197 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7198 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7199 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7200
7201 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7202 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7203 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7204 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7205 programs already written to use it.)
7206
7207 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7208 constants.
7209
7210 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7211 with 4.4 BSD.
7212
7213 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7214 a given effective group ID.
7215
7216 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7217 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7218 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7219 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7220
7221 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7222 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7223 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7224 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7225 doing the same thing.
7226
7227 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7228 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7229
7230 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7231 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7232
7233 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7234
7235 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7236 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7237 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7238 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7239 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7240
7241 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7242 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7243
7244 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7245 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7246 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7247 function.
7248
7249 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7250
7251 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7252 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7253 strings.
7254
7255 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7256 and writing the utmp file.
7257
7258 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7259 Thorsten Kukuk.
7260
7261 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7262 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7263 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7264
7265 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7266 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7267
7268 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7269 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7270 specification.
7271
7272 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7273 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7274 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7275 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7276
7277 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7278 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7279 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7280
7281 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7282 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7283 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7284 expression matcher.
7285
7286 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7287 functionality.
7288
7289 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7290 by Ulrich Drepper.
7291
7292 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7293
7294 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7295 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7296 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7297 \f
7298 Version 1.09
7299
7300 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7301
7302 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7303 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7304
7305 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7306 want to put themselves in the background.
7307
7308 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7309 run without an operating system.
7310
7311 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7312 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7313
7314 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7315 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7316
7317 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7318
7319 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7320 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7321 have YP (aka NIS).
7322
7323 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7324 conventions.
7325
7326 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7327 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7328 \f
7329 Version 1.08
7330
7331 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7332 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7333 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7334
7335 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7336 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7337
7338 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7339 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7340
7341 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7342
7343 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7344
7345 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7346 compatibility.
7347
7348 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7349 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7350 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7351
7352 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7353
7354 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7355 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7356 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7357
7358 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7359 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7360 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7361 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7362 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7363 on a block).
7364
7365 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7366 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7367 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7368 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7369 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7370 cross-compiler.
7371
7372 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7373 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7374 \f
7375 Version 1.07
7376
7377 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7378 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7379
7380 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7381 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7382 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7383
7384 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7385 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7386 address of the last character written.
7387
7388 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7389 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7390
7391 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7392 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7393
7394 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7395 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7396 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7397 you dereference this pointer.
7398
7399 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7400 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7401
7402 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7403 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7404 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7405 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7406
7407 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7408 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7409 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7410 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7411 \f
7412 Version 1.06
7413
7414 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7415 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7416 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7417 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7418 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7419
7420 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7421
7422 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7423
7424 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7425 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7426
7427 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7428 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7429
7430 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7431 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7432
7433 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7434 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7435 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7436 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7437 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7438
7439 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7440 to the error code in `errno'.
7441
7442 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7443 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7444 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7445 malloc'd string.
7446
7447 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7448 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7449 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7450
7451 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7452 uniquely-named temporary file.
7453 \f
7454 Version 1.05
7455
7456 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7457 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7458 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7459
7460 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7461 characters.
7462
7463 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7464 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7465
7466 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7467 \f
7468 Version 1.04
7469
7470 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7471 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7472 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7473 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7474
7475 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7476 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7477 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7478
7479 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7480 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7481
7482 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7483 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7484 made itself into a shared library.
7485
7486 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7487 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7488
7489 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7490 with limited length.
7491
7492 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7493
7494 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7495
7496 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7497
7498 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7499 function for traversing a directory tree.
7500
7501 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7502 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7503 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7504 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7505
7506 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7507 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7508
7509 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7510
7511 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7512 things to your strings.
7513
7514 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7515
7516 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7517 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7518 supporting those systems.
7519
7520 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7521 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7522 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7523 configuration files.
7524
7525 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7526 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7527
7528 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7529 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7530 in <strings.h>.)
7531
7532 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7533 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7534 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7535 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7536 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7537 required storage is not available.
7538
7539 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7540 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7541
7542 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7543 latest files released from Berkeley.
7544 \f
7545 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
7546 Copying conditions:
7547
7548 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7549 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7550 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7551 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7552
7553 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7554 of this document, or of portions of it,
7555 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7556 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7557 \f
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