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8 Version 2.40
9
10 Major new features:
11
12 * The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
13 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
14 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
15 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
16
17 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC23_SOURCE to
18 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
19 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
20 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
21 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
22 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
23
24 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, used to run a program
25 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
26 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
27 be a security feature.
28
29 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
30
31 * Architectures which use a 32-bit seconds-since-epoch field in struct
32 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
33 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
34 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
35 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
36 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
37 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
38 problems.
39
40 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
41
42 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
43
44 Security related changes:
45
46 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
47 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
48
49 [The release manager will add the list generated by
50 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
51
52 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
53
54 [The release manager will add the list generated by
55 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
56 \f
57 Version 2.39
58
59 Major new features:
60
61 * A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
62 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
63 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
64
65 * Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
66 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
67
68 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
69 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
70 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
71 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
72
73 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
74 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
75 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
76 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
77 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
78
79 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
80 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
81 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
82 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
83 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
84 posix_spawn interface.
85
86 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
87 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
88 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
89
90 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
91 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
92 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
93 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
94 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
95 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
96
97 * A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
98 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
99 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
100 malloc).
101
102 * The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
103 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
104 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
105 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
106 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
107 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
108 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
109 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
110
111 * On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
112 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
113 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
114 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
115 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
116 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
117
118 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
119
120 * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
121 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
122 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
123
124 * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
125 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
126 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
127 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
128 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
129 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
130 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
131
132 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
133 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
134 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
135 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
136
137 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
138 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
139 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
140 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
141 simplified.
142
143 * The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
144 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
145 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
146 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
147 initial-exec TLS.
148
149 * The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
150
151 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
152
153 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
154 instructions.
155
156 Security related changes:
157
158 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
159 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
160
161 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
162 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
163
164 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
165 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
166
167 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
168 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
169 (CVE-2023-4911)
170
171 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
172 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
173
174 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
175 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
176
177 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
178 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
179
180 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
181
182 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
183 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
184 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
185 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
186 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
187 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
188 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
189 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
190 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
191 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
192 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
193 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
194 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
195 en_NZ and en_AU
196 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
197 nn_NO
198 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
199 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
200 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
201 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
202 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
203 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
204 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
205 __sparcv9
206 [27601] localedata: License information update in
207 localedata/locales/ast_ES
208 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
209 n_cs_precedes
210 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
211 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
212 following dlclose with unused TLS
213 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
214 week should be Monday
215 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
216 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
217 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
218 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
219 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
220 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
221 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
222 smileys
223 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
224 encoding name was wrong
225 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
226 -fexceptions
227 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
228 of flagging an error
229 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
230 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
231 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
232 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
233 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
234 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
235 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
236 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
237 backwards
238 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
239 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
240 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
241 (CVE-2023-4527)
242 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
243 (CVE-2023-4806)
244 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
245 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
246 (CVE-2023-5156)
247 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
248 are open
249 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
250 threads
251 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
252 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
253 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
254 separator
255 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
256 handling
257 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
258 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
259 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
260 i386
261 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
262 i386, x86_64
263 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
264 flags on alpha
265 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
266 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
267 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
268 name
269 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
270 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
271 regression
272 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
273 'char *name;'
274 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
275 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
276 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
277 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
278 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
279 bug 17522 fix
280 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
281 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
282 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
283 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
284 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
285 uz_UZ
286 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
287 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
288 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
289 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
290 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
291 same as the full month names
292 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
293 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
294 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
295 sparcv9
296 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
297 \f
298 Version 2.38
299
300 Major new features:
301
302 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
303 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
304 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
305 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
306 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
307 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
308 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
309 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
310 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
311 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
312 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
313
314 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
315 <inttypes.h>.
316
317 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
318 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
319 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
320 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
321 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
322 specified in draft ISO C2X.
323
324 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
325 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
326
327 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
328 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
329
330 - x86_64-gnu
331
332 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
333 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
334 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
335 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
336 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
337
338 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
339 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
340
341 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
342 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
343 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
344 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
345 original behavior unchanged.
346
347 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
348
349 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
350 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
351 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
352 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
353
354 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
355 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
356 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
357 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
358 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
359 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
360
361 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
362 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
363 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
364
365 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
366 feature is now always enabled.
367
368 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
369
370 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
371 ACLE.
372
373 Security related changes:
374
375 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
376 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
377 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
378 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
379 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
380 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
381
382 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
383
384 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
385 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
386 threads and stdio
387 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
388 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
389 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
390 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
391 intXX_t
392 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
393 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
394 argument
395 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
396 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
397 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
398 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
399 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
400 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
401 systems
402 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
403 symlink for libraries without soname
404 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
405 Clang
406 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
407 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
408 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
409 profiling data correctly
410 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
411 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
412 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
413 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
414 unnecessarily
415 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
416 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
417 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
418 early startup
419 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
420 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
421 on clang
422 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
423 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
424 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
425 \f
426 Version 2.37
427
428 Major new features:
429
430 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
431 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
432 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
433 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
434
435 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
436
437 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
438 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
439 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
440 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
441
442 Security related changes:
443
444 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
445 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
446 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
447 portion of the contents of the heap.
448
449 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
450
451 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
452 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
453 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
454 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
455 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
456 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
457 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
458 redirection headers
459 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
460 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
461 first if in a cycle
462 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
463 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
464 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
465 gethostbyname and other functions
466 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
467 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
468 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
469 wrong family
470 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
471 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
472 failed!
473 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
474 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
475 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
476 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
477 segfault on alpha
478 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
479 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
480 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
481 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
482 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
483 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
484 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
485 reuses namespace
486 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
487 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
488 futexes on qemu-user
489 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
490 printed
491 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
492 whitespace
493 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
494 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
495 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
496 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
497 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
498 file support
499 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
500 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
501 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
502 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
503 cache is enabled
504 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
505 BMI2 instructions
506 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
507 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
508 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
509 platforms
510 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
511 optimizations
512 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
513 thousands grouping
514 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
515 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
516 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
517 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
518 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
519 aux.S: No such file or directory)
520 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
521 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
522 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
523 coincides with offset change
524 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
525 length in fortify mode
526 \f
527 Version 2.36
528
529 Major new features:
530
531 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
532 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
533 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
534 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
535 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
536 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
537
538 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
539 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
540 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
541
542 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
543 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
544 by the pidfd.
545
546 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
547 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
548 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
549 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
550
551 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
552 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
553 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
554 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
555 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
556 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
557 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
558 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
559 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
560 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
561 validation by applications.
562
563 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
564 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
565 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
566 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
567 with namespaces.
568
569 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
570 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
571 unpredictable output.
572
573 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
574 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
575 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
576 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
577 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
578 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
579 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
580 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
581
582 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
583 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
584 quality randomness from the kernel.
585
586 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
587 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
588 ABI is supported:
589
590 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
591
592 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
593
594 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
595
596 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
597 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
598 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
599
600 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
601 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
602 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
603 when libc.so is issued directly.
604
605 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
606
607 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
608
609 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
610 return different result with versioned "foo"
611 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
612 mess
613 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
614 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
615 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
616 calls dlclose
617 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
618 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
619 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
620 enforced
621 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
622 deadlock
623 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
624 format
625 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
626 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
627 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
628 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
629 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
630 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
631 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
632 other standards.
633 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
634 from the stack
635 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
636 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
637 (breaks test isolation)
638 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
639 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
640 __convert_scm_timestamps
641 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
642 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
643 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
644 missing libraries
645 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
646 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
647 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
648 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
649 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
650 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
651 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
652 SUCCESS=MERGE
653 [28936] build: nm: No such file
654 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
655 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
656 clobbers errno
657 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
658 bench.
659 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
660 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
661 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
662 /proc/self/fd/
663 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
664 on ENOENT and EACCES
665 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
666 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
667 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
668 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
669 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
670 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
671 is promoted to global scope
672 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
673 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
674 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
675 broke ld.so
676 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
677 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
678 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
679 failure
680 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
681 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
682 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
683 before '__fortified_attr_access'
684 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
685 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
686 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
687 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
688 value for filling after \0
689 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
690 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
691 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
692 aware
693 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
694 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
695 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
696 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
697 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
698 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
699 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
700 line 184
701 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
702 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
703 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
704 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
705 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
706 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
707 missing on microblaze with largefile
708 \f
709 Version 2.35
710
711 Major new features:
712
713 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
714 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
715 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
716
717 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
718 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
719
720 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
721 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
722 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
723 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
724 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
725 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
726 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
727 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
728 glibc, and must be installed.
729
730 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
731 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
732 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
733
734 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
735 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
736
737 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
738 fMxfmafNx functions.
739
740 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
741 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
742 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
743 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
744 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
745 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
746
747 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
748 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
749 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
750 M_SQRT1_2f.
751
752 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
753 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
754
755 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
756 macro in <tgmath.h>.
757
758 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
759
760 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
761 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
762 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
763
764 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
765 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
766 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
767 object dependency cases.
768
769 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
770 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
771 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
772 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
773
774 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
775 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
776 return value is only used for its boolean status.
777
778 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
779 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
780 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
781 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
782 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
783 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
784 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
785 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
786 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
787 Restartable Sequences.
788
789 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
790 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
791
792 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
793 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
794 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
795 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
796 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
797 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
798 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
799 configuration.
800
801 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
802 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
803 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
804 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
805 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
806 huge pages.
807
808 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
809 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
810
811 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
812 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
813 address.
814
815 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
816 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
817 ABI is supported:
818
819 - or1k-linux-gnu
820
821 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
822 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
823
824 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
825 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
826 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
827 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
828 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
829
830 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
831 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
832
833 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
834 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
835 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
836
837 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
838 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
839 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
840 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
841 bounds).
842
843 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
844 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
845
846 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
847
848 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
849 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
850 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
851
852 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
853 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
854
855 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
856 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
857
858 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
859
860 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
861
862 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
863 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
864 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
865
866 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
867 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
868 catching coredumps and backtraces.
869
870 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
871 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
872 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
873
874 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
875 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
876 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
877
878 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
879 support prelink PIE binaries.
880
881 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
882
883 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
884 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
885 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
886 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
887 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
888
889 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
890 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
891 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
892 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
893
894 Security related changes:
895
896 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
897 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
898 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
899
900 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
901 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
902
903 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
904 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
905 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
906
907 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
908 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
909 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
910 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
911 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
912
913 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
914
915 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
916 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
917 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
918 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
919 many dsos
920 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
921 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
922 degradation
923 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
924 loaded with dlmopen
925 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
926 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
927 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
928 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
929 ID whose lifetime has not ended
930 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
931 (CVE-2022-23219)
932 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
933 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
934 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
935 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
936 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
937 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
938 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
939 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
940 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
941 --enable-initfini-array
942 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
943 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
944 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
945 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
946 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
947 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
948 empty
949 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
950 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
951 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
952 built with ld.lld
953 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
954 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
955 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
956 2.34
957 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
958 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
959 robustness
960 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
961 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
962 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
963 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
964 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
965 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
966 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
967 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
968 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
969 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
970 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
971 file
972 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
973 only dynamic section
974 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
975 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
976 recvmsg()
977 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
978 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
979 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
980 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
981 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
982 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
983 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
984 C2X
985 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
986 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
987 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
988 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
989 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
990 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
991 globalmod1.so
992 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
993 systems with TIMESIZE=64
994 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
995 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
996 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
997 spurious NUL character on state reset
998 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
999 incorrect
1000 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1001 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1002 execution test
1003 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1004 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1005 hppa
1006 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1007 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1008 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1009 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1010 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1011 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1012 crashes
1013 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1014 binutils changes
1015 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1016 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1017 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1018 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1019 is not useful
1020 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1021 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1022 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1023 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1024 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1025 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1026 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1027 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1028 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1029 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1030 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1031 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1032 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1033 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1034 (CVE-2022-23218)
1035 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1036 (CVE-2021-3999)
1037 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1038 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1039 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1040 in Systemtap probes
1041 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1042 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1043 x86-64-baseline
1044 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1045 with no closing ]
1046 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1047 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1048 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
1049
1050 \f
1051 Version 2.34
1052
1053 Major new features:
1054
1055 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1056 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1057 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1058 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1059 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1060 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1061 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1062 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1063 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1064 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1065 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1066 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1067 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1068 potentially exposing application bugs.
1069
1070 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
1071 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
1072 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
1073 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
1074
1075 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1076 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
1077 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
1078 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
1079 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1080 Arm SVE.
1081
1082 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1083 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1084 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1085
1086 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1087 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1088 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1089 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
1090
1091 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
1092
1093 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1094 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1095 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1096 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1097 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1098
1099 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
1100 --disable-scv configure option.
1101
1102 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1103 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1104 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
1105 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
1106 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1107 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1108 version of 5.1.
1109
1110 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1111 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1112 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1113 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1114 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1115 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1116 that directory.
1117
1118 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
1119 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1120
1121 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
1122 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
1123 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
1124 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1125 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1126 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1127 is currently a GNU extension.
1128
1129 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
1130 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1131
1132 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
1133 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1134 although it is also present in other systems.
1135
1136 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1137 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1138 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1139 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
1140
1141 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1142 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1143 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
1144
1145 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1146
1147 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1148 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1149 instead.
1150
1151 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1152 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1153 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1154
1155 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1156 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1157 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1158
1159 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1160 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1161
1162 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1163
1164 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1165 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1166 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1167 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1168 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1169 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1170 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1171 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1172 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1173 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1174 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
1175
1176 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
1177 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1178 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1179 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1180 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1181 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1182 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1183 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
1184
1185 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
1186 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
1187 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
1188 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
1189 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
1190 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
1191 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
1192
1193 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
1194 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1195 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1196 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1197 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1198 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1199 upgrade or downgrade process.
1200
1201 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1202 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1203 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1204
1205 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1206 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1207 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1208 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1209
1210 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1211 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1212 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1213 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1214 this functionality back.
1215
1216 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1217 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1218 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1219 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1220
1221 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1222 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1223 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1224 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1225 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1226 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1227 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1228 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1229 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1230
1231 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1232
1233 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1234 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1235 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1236 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1237
1238 Security related changes:
1239
1240 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1241 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1242 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1243 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1244
1245 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1246 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1247 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1248
1249 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1250 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1251 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1252
1253 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1254
1255 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1256 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1257 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1258 given integer (closefrom)
1259 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1260 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1261 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1262 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1263 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1264 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1265 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1266 random thread
1267 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1268 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1269 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1270 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1271 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1272 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1273 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1274 manual is incorrect
1275 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1276 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1277 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1278 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1279 pthread_create and dlopen
1280 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1281 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1282 when non-root user changes priority
1283 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1284 dlopen
1285 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1286 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1287 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1288 ordered correctly
1289 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1290 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1291 data.
1292 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1293 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1294 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1295 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1296 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1297 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1298 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1299 the right free implementation
1300 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1301 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1302 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1303 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1304 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1305 protector=all)
1306 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1307 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1308 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1309 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1310 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1311 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1312 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1313 uninitialized
1314 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1315 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1316 system calls
1317 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1318 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1319 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1320 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1321 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1322 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1323 deployments
1324 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1325 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1326 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1327 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1328 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1329 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1330 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1331 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1332 is present
1333 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1334 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1335 protector=all
1336 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1337 information for the current directory
1338 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1339 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1340 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1341 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1342 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1343 containers
1344 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1345 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1346 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1347 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1348 INT_MAX
1349 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1350 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1351 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1352 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1353 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1354 tries resolving them lazily
1355 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1356 libthread_db
1357 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1358 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1359 argument
1360 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1361 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1362 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1363 not set ENOMEM
1364 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1365 randomization
1366 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1367 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1368 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1369 IS_ERR_VALUE
1370 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1371 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1372 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1373 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1374 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1375 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1376 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1377 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1378 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1379 with n >= 0x80000000
1380 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1381 thread never allocated anything
1382 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1383 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1384 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1385 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1386 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1387 on older kernels
1388 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1389 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1390 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1391 AMD64 cpus
1392 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1393 terminator
1394
1395 \f
1396 Version 2.33
1397
1398 Major new features:
1399
1400 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1401 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1402 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1403
1404 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1405 to change argv[0] string.
1406
1407 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1408 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1409 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1410 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1411 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1412 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1413 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1414 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1415 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1416
1417 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1418 information and library search path diagnostics.
1419
1420 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1421 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1422 larger than fit in an integer.
1423
1424 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1425
1426 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1427 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1428
1429 - rv32imac ilp32
1430 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1431 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1432
1433 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1434 2.28.
1435
1436 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1437 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1438 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1439 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1440 fortification.
1441
1442 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1443
1444 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1445 mallinfo2 instead.
1446
1447 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1448 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1449 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1450
1451 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1452 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1453 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1454 prlimit.
1455
1456 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1457 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1458 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1459
1460 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1461 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1462 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1463 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1464 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1465 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1466
1467 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1468 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1469 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1470 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1471 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1472 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1473 loaded.
1474
1475 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1476
1477 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1478 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1479 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1480 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1481 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1482 perform any adjustments.
1483
1484 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1485 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1486 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1487 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1488
1489 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1490
1491 Security related changes:
1492
1493 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1494 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1495 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1496 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1497 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1498
1499 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1500 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1501 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1502
1503 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1504 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1505
1506 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1507 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1508
1509 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1510
1511 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1512 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1513 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1514 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1515 AT_EACCESS
1516 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1517 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1518 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1519 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1520 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1521 with GCC
1522 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1523 stack-protector=all
1524 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1525 cases
1526 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1527 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1528 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1529 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1530 changing gnuc version
1531 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1532 incorrect
1533 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1534 bits
1535 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1536 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1537 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1538 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1539 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1540 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1541 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1542 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1543 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1544 too much stack space
1545 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1546 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1547 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1548 with optimization.
1549 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1550 anymore
1551 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1552 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1553 non-FMA4 system
1554 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1555 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1556 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1557 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1558 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1559 getaddrinfo
1560 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1561 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1562 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1563 fault
1564 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1565 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1566 at the end of a memory mapping
1567 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1568 by the caller to the kernel
1569 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1570 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1571 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1572 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1573 monotonic clocks
1574 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1575 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1576 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1577 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1578 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1579 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1580 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1581 one element
1582 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1583 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1584 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1585 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1586 lazy bound
1587 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1588 PI mutexes
1589 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1590 not safe
1591 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1592 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1593 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1594 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1595 platform
1596 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1597 startup code
1598 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1599 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1600 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1601 protected
1602 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1603 only since 2.31
1604 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1605 locked
1606 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1607 aligned
1608 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1609 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1610 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1611 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1612 detection logic
1613 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1614 pclose(3))
1615 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1616 setup
1617 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1618 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1619 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1620 work
1621 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1622 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1623 [27177] dynamic-link:
1624 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1625 work
1626 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1627 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1628 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1629 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1630
1631 \f
1632 Version 2.32
1633
1634 Major new features:
1635
1636 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1637 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1638 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1639
1640 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1641
1642 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1643 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1644 Three ABIs are supported:
1645
1646 - arc-linux-gnu
1647 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1648 - arceb-linux-gnu
1649
1650 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1651 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1652
1653 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1654 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1655
1656 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1657 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1658 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1659 this option.
1660
1661 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1662 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1663 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1664
1665 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1666 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1667 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1668
1669 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1670 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1671 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1672 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1673 libpthread.
1674
1675 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1676 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1677 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1678 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1679 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1680 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1681
1682 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1683 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1684
1685 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1686 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1687 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1688 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1689 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1690 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1691
1692 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1693 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1694
1695 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1696 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1697 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1698 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1699 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1700 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1701 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1702 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1703 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1704 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1705 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1706 BTI compatible.
1707
1708 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1709
1710 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1711 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1712 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1713 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1714 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1715 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1716 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1717
1718 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1719 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1720 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1721 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1722 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1723 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1724 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1725 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1726 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1727
1728 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1729 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1730 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1731 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1732 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1733
1734 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1735 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1736 was not declared in any header file.
1737
1738 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1739 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1740 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1741 sigaction functions instead.
1742
1743 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1744 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1745
1746 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1747 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1748 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1749 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1750 strsignal instead.
1751
1752 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1753 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1754 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1755 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1756 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1757
1758 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1759 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1760 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1761 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1762
1763 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1764 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1765 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1766 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1767 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1768 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1769 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1770
1771 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1772 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1773 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1774 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1775 flavor of secure RPC.)
1776
1777 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1778 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1779 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1780 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1781 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1782 object, to enable the hooks.
1783
1784 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1785 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1786 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1787 LDAP.
1788
1789 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1790
1791 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1792 long double redirects.
1793
1794 Security related changes:
1795
1796 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1797 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1798 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1799
1800 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1801 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1802 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1803
1804 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1805 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1806
1807 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1808 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1809 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1810 TALOS-2020-1019).
1811
1812 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1813
1814 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1815 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1816 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1817 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1818 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1819 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1820 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1821 filtee has constructor
1822 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1823 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1824 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1825 character entities for infinity & pi
1826 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1827 segfaults in applications
1828 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1829 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1830 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1831 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1832 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1833 function with -mlong-double-64
1834 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1835 binding
1836 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1837 ld.so.cache
1838 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1839 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1840 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1841 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1842 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1843 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1844 linker
1845 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1846 dynamically loaded dsos
1847 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1848 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1849 access
1850 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1851 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1852 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1853 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1854 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1855 stale configuration forever
1856 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1857 (CVE-2020-10029)
1858 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1859 defaults to PIE
1860 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1861 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1862 (CVE-2020-6096)
1863 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1864 on 32 bit and old kernel
1865 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1866 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1867 Occitan
1868 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1869 amount of sigset_t bytes
1870 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1871 strings
1872 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1873 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1874 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1875 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1876 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1877 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1878 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1879 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1880 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1881 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1882 size_t
1883 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1884 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1885 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1886 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1887 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1888 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1889 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1890 cpu=power9
1891 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1892 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1893 segfault
1894 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1895 exiting detached thread
1896 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1897 for x32
1898 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1899 ERANGE
1900 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1901 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1902 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1903 dependencies in audit mode
1904 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1905 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1906 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1907 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1908 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1909 input
1910 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1911 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1912 preserve r2
1913 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1914 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1915 variables
1916 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1917 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1918 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1919 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1920 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1921 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1922 corruption in memset
1923
1924 \f
1925 Version 2.31
1926
1927 Major new features:
1928
1929 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1930 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1931 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1932 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1933 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1934 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1935
1936 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1937 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1938 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1939 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1940
1941 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1942 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1943 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1944
1945 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1946
1947 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1948 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1949 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1950 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1951 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1952 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1953 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1954 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1955
1956 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1957
1958 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1959 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1960 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1961 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1962 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1963 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1964
1965 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1966 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1967 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1968
1969 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1970 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1971 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1972 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1973
1974 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1975 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1976 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1977 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1978 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1979 made this no longer practical.
1980
1981 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1982 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1983 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1984 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1985 release.)
1986
1987 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1988 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1989 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1990
1991 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1992 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1993 using clock_gettime instead.
1994
1995 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1996 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1997 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1998 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1999 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2000
2001 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2002 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2003 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2004 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2005
2006 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2007 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2008 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2009 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2010 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2011 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2012
2013 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2014 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2015 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2016 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2017 offset API.
2018
2019 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2020 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2021 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2022
2023 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2024 configurations.
2025
2026 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2027 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2028 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2029 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2030 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2031
2032 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2033 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2034 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2035 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2036 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2037 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2038 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2039 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2040
2041 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2042 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2043
2044 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2045 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2046 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2047 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2048 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2049 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2050
2051 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2052
2053 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
2054 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2055 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
2056
2057 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2058 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2059 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2060
2061 Security related changes:
2062
2063 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2064 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2065
2066 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2067 environment variable during program execution after a security
2068 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2069 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2070 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
2071
2072 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2073
2074 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2075 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2076 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2077 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2078 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2079 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2080 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2081 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2082 linking failure
2083 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2084 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2085 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2086 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2087 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2088 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2089 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2090 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2091 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2092 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2093 7408-2005
2094 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2095 with localedef
2096 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2097 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2098 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2099 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2100 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2101 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2102 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2103 utmp entries
2104 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2105 ABSOLUTE ABI
2106 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2107 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2108 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2109 (stringop-overflow error)
2110 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2111 functions other can lead to crashes
2112 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2113 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2114 unconditionally
2115 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2116 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2117 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2118 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2119 still can fail with an error
2120 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2121 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2122 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2123 initialized correctly
2124 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2125 -frewrite-includes
2126 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2127 value to an unsigned
2128 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2129 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2130 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2131 protection
2132 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2133 ifunc variant.
2134 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2135 al. for Clang++
2136 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2137 (Slovenian)
2138 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2139 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2140 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2141 with -std=c11
2142 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2143 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2144 part
2145 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2146 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2147 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2148 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2149 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2150 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
2151
2152 \f
2153 Version 2.30
2154
2155 Major new features:
2156
2157 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2158 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
2159 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2160
2161 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2162 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
2163
2164 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2165 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2166 to the callback function.
2167
2168 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
2169
2170 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2171 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2172 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2173
2174 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2175
2176 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2177 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2178 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2179 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2180 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2181
2182 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2183 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2184 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2185 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2186 link time reference, is gone.
2187
2188 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2189 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2190 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2191 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2192 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2193 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2194 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2195 the clock choice at initialization time).
2196
2197 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2198 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2199 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2200
2201 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2202
2203 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2204 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2205 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2206 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2207 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2208 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2209 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2210 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2211 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2212
2213 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2214 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2215 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2216 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2217 since glibc 2.17.
2218
2219 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2220 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2221
2222 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2223 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2224
2225 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2226 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2227
2228 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2229 BIND_NOW flag.
2230
2231 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2232 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2233 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2234
2235 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2236 header have been removed.
2237
2238 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2239 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2240 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2241 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2242
2243 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2244
2245 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2246
2247 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2248 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2249
2250 Security related changes:
2251
2252 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2253 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2254 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2255 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2256 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2257 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2258 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2259
2260 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2261 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2262 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2263
2264 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2265
2266 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2267 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2268 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2269 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2270 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2271 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2272 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2273 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2274 invalid input drops valid char
2275 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2276 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2277 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2278 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2279 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2280 malloc.h.
2281 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2282 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2283 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2284 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2285 functions
2286 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2287 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2288 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2289 for long double = double
2290 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2291 long double = double
2292 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2293 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2294 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2295 long timeouts
2296 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2297 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2298 checking for NULL.
2299 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2300 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2301 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2302 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2303 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2304 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2305 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2306 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2307 not the default "nor"
2308 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2309 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2310 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2311 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2312 compiler barriers.
2313 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2314 unnecessary librt dependencies
2315 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2316 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2317 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2318 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2319 unsorted chunk
2320 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2321 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2322 to R_SPARC_H44
2323 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2324 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2325 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2326 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2327 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2328 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2329 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2330 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2331 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2332 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2333 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2334 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2335 was not used
2336 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2337 tests
2338 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2339 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2340 time_t changes
2341 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2342 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2343 kernels and break testing
2344 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2345 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2346 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2347 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2348 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2349 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2350 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2351 -O3 -march=skylake
2352 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2353 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2354 crash
2355 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2356 linked glibc
2357 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2358 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2359 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2360 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2361 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2362 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2363 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2364 always implemented in the same library
2365 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2366 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2367 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2368 testroot
2369
2370 \f
2371 Version 2.29
2372
2373 Major new features:
2374
2375 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2376 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2377
2378 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2379 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2380 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2381 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2382 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2383 configured location.
2384
2385 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2386
2387 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2388 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2389
2390 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2391 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2392 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2393 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2394 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2395 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2396 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2397 process actually does not use HTM).
2398
2399 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2400 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2401 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2402 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2403 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2404 of the same name.
2405
2406 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2407 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2408 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2409 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2410 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2411
2412 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2413 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2414 supported:
2415 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2416 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2417
2418 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2419 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2420 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2421 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2422 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2423 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2424 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2425
2426 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2427 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2428 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2429
2430 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2431
2432 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2433 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2434
2435 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2436 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2437 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2438 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2439
2440 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2441 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2442 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2443 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2444 structures.
2445
2446 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2447 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2448 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2449 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2450 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2451 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2452
2453 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2454 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2455 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2456 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2457 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2458
2459 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2460 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2461 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2462
2463 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2464
2465 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2466
2467 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2468 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2469
2470 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2471 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2472
2473 Security related changes:
2474
2475 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2476 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2477 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2478
2479 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2480 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2481 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2482 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2483 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2484
2485 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2486 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2487 or command injection issues in applications.
2488
2489 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2490
2491 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2492 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2493 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2494 thousands
2495 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2496 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2497 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2498 --param options)
2499 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2500 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2501 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2502 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2503 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2504 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2505 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2506 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2507 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2508 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2509 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2510 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2511 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2512 pointer argument is non-NULL
2513 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2514 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2515 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2516 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2517 multithreads call popen
2518 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2519 and pthread_create fails.
2520 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2521 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2522 constructor
2523 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2524 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2525 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2526 source tree
2527 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2528 float
2529 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2530 one error
2531 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2532 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2533 linker
2534 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2535 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2536 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2537 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2538 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2539 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2540 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2541 filesystems
2542 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2543 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2544 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2545 functions
2546 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2547 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2548 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2549 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2550 have wrong type
2551 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2552 wrong type
2553 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2554 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2555 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2556 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2557 threads
2558 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2559 start.S
2560 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2561 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2562 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2563 powerpc64le
2564 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2565 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2566 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2567 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2568 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2569 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2570 strftime
2571 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2572 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2573 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2574 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2575 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2576 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2577 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2578 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2579 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2580 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2581 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2582 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2583 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2584 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2585 tcache size
2586 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2587 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2588 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2589 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2590 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2591 (CVE-2018-19591)
2592 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2593 nearest rounding mode
2594 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2595 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2596 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2597 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2598 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2599 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2600 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2601 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2602 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2603 error
2604 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2605 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2606 using GCC 8
2607 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2608 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2609 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2610 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2611 ppc64le
2612 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2613 expected result
2614 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2615 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2616 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2617 sigaltstack
2618 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2619 answers will be rejected)
2620 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2621
2622 \f
2623 Version 2.28
2624
2625 Major new features:
2626
2627 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2628 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2629 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2630 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2631 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2632 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2633 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2634 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2635 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2636 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2637 archive or binary locales.
2638
2639 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2640 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2641 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2642 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2643 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2644 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2645 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2646 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2647 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2648 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2649 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2650 validated for i686.
2651
2652 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2653 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2654 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2655 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2656 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2657 field) to indicate such support is required.
2658
2659 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2660 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2661 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2662
2663 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2664 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2665
2666 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2667 fMxaddfNx functions.
2668
2669 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2670 fMxsubfNx functions.
2671
2672 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2673 fMxmulfNx functions.
2674
2675 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2676 fMxdivfNx functions.
2677
2678 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2679 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2680 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2681 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2682 and Kashubian.
2683
2684 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2685 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2686
2687 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2688 patches.
2689
2690 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2691 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2692 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2693 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2694 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2695 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2696 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2697 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2698
2699 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2700 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2701 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2702 the fstatat64 function.
2703
2704 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2705 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2706 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2707 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2708 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2709 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2710 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2711 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2712 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2713
2714 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2715 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2716 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2717 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2718 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2719 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2720 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2721 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2722 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2723 results in a load failure now.
2724
2725 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2726 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2727 <threads.h>:
2728
2729 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2730 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2731
2732 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2733 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2734
2735 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2736
2737 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2738 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2739
2740 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2741
2742 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2743
2744 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2745
2746 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2747 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2748 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2749
2750 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2751 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2752 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2753 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2754 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2755 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2756
2757 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2758 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2759 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2760 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2761 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2762 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2763 (Bug #1190.)
2764
2765 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2766 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2767 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2768 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2769 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2770 further explanation.
2771
2772 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2773 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2774 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2775
2776 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2777
2778 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2779 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2780 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2781
2782 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2783 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2784 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2785 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2786
2787 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2788 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2789 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2790 for this function instead.
2791
2792 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2793 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2794 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2795
2796 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2797 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2798 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2799 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2800
2801 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2802 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2803 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2804 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2805 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2806
2807 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2808 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2809 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2810 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2811 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2812 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2813 such as libgcrypt.
2814
2815 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2816 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2817 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2818 enabled.
2819
2820 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2821 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2822 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2823
2824 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2825 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2826 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2827 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2828 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2829 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2830
2831 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2832 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2833 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2834 behavior in a future release.
2835
2836 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2837
2838 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2839
2840 Security related changes:
2841
2842 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2843 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2844 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2845 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2846
2847 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2848 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2849
2850 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2851 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2852 Izbyshev.
2853
2854 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2855 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2856 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2857
2858 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2859
2860 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2861 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2862 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2863 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2864 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2865 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2866 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2867 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2868 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2869 14651
2870 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2871 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2872 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2873 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2874 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2875 conversion is given
2876 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2877 date
2878 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2879 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2880 scope with -O1 and higher
2881 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2882 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2883 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2884 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2885 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2886 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2887 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2888 horrible machine code)
2889 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2890 last constant.
2891 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2892 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2893 symbols
2894 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2895 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2896 defined
2897 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2898 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2899 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2900 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2901 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2902 fpscr.c'
2903 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2904 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2905 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2906 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2907 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2908 the base address
2909 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2910 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2911 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2912 open_verify
2913 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2914 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2915 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2916 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2917 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2918 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2919 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2920 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2921 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2922 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2923 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2924 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2925 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2926 dlopen
2927 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2928 AT_SECURE=1
2929 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2930 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2931 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2932 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2933 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2934 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2935 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2936 for Spanish with CLDR
2937 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2938 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2939 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2940 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2941 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2942 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2943 es_BO
2944 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2945 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2946 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2947 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2948 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2949 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2950 dlopen failures
2951 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2952 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2953 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2954 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2955 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2956 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2957 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2958 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2959 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2960 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2961 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2962 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2963 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2964 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2965 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2966 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2967 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2968 makecontext
2969 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2970 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2971 required
2972 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2973 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2974 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2975 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2976 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2977 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2978 disabled
2979 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2980 failure
2981 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2982 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2983 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2984 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2985 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2986 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2987 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2988 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2989 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2990 and libc build with -Os)
2991 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2992 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2993 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2994 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2995 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2996 that changes /etc/passwd
2997 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2998 (CVE-2018-11237)
2999 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3000 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3001 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3002 posix/regcomp.c
3003 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3004 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3005 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3006 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3007 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3008 AT_SECURE
3009 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3010 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3011 parser.c
3012 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3013 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3014 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3015 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3016 directed rounding
3017 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3018 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3019 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3020 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3021 lookup
3022 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3023 interposition
3024 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3025 DSO boundaries.
3026 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3027 <linux/time.h>
3028 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3029 checking
3030 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3031 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3032 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3033 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3034 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3035 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3036 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3037 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3038 processors
3039 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
3040
3041 \f
3042 Version 2.27
3043
3044 Major new features:
3045
3046 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3047 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
3048 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
3049 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3050 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3051 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3052 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
3053 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3054 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
3055
3056 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
3057 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3058 H.J. Lu from Intel.
3059
3060 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3061
3062 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
3063
3064 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3065 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3066 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3067 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3068 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3069 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3070 from a security and performance perspective.
3071
3072 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3073 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3074 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3075 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3076
3077 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
3078 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3079 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3080 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
3081 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3082
3083 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
3084 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
3085 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3086 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3087 _Float128.
3088
3089 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3090 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3091 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
3092
3093 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
3094
3095 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3096 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3097 pkey_get.
3098
3099 * The copy_file_range function was added.
3100
3101 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3102
3103 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3104 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3105 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3106
3107 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3108 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3109 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3110 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3111 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3112 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3113 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3114
3115 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3116 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3117 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3118 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3119 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3120 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3121 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3122
3123 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3124 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
3125 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3126 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3127 respectively.
3128
3129 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3130 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3131 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3132 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
3133
3134 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3135 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3136 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3137
3138 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3139 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
3140 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
3141
3142 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3143 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3144 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3145
3146 - rv64imac lp64
3147 - rv64imafdc lp64
3148 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3149
3150 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3151
3152 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3153 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
3154 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
3155 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3156 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3157 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3158 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3159 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3160 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3161 fix this.
3162
3163 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3164 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3165 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3166
3167 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3168 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3169 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3170 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3171 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3172 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3173 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3174 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3175 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3176 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3177 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3178 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3179 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3180 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3181 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3182 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3183 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3184 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3185 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3186 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3187 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3188 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3189 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3190 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3191 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3192 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3193
3194 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3195 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
3196
3197 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3198 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3199 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3200 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3201 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3202 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3203 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3204
3205 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3206 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3207 exp10l for these functions instead.
3208
3209 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3210 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3211 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3212
3213 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3214 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3215 ignored.
3216
3217 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3218 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3219 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3220 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3221
3222 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3223 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3224
3225 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3226 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3227
3228 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3229 programs.
3230
3231 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3232
3233 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3234 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3235 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3236 instead.
3237
3238 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3239 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3240 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3241 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3242 use, but predates the bits convention.
3243
3244 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3245
3246 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3247 subdirectory.
3248
3249 Security related changes:
3250
3251 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3252 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3253 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3254 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3255 script.)
3256
3257 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3258 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3259 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3260 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3261
3262 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3263 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3264 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3265 of service.
3266
3267 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3268 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3269 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3270
3271 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3272 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3273 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3274 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3275
3276 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3277 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3278 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3279 Qualys.
3280
3281 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3282 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3283 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3284 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3285 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3286
3287 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3288 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3289 current directory.
3290
3291 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3292 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3293 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3294
3295 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3296 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3297 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3298
3299 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3300 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3301 small, instead of NULL.
3302
3303 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3304
3305 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3306 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3307 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3308 locale
3309 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3310 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3311 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3312 cases
3313 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3314 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3315 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3316 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3317 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3318 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3319 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3320 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3321 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3322 "Bangla"
3323 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3324 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3325 width Latin characters
3326 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3327 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3328 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3329 letters
3330 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3331 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3332 (CVE-2009-5064)
3333 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3334 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3335 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3336 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3337 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3338 if malloc succeeded
3339 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3340 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3341 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3342 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3343 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3344 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3345 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3346 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3347 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3348 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3349 U+309A
3350 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3351 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3352 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3353 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3354 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3355 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3356 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3357 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3358 for Nicaragua
3359 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3360 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3361 are not found.
3362 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3363 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3364 access
3365 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3366 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3367 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3368 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3369 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3370 __regcall calling convention
3371 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3372 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3373 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3374 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3375 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3376 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3377 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3378 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3379 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3380 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3381 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3382 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3383 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3384 locale
3385 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3386 protector=all
3387 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3388 wcwidth
3389 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3390 consistency check failures
3391 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3392 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3393 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3394 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3395 PIE
3396 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3397 locales
3398 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3399 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3400 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3401 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3402 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3403 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3404 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3405 on memory allocation failure
3406 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3407 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3408 the suspect)
3409 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3410 default (i386)
3411 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3412 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3413 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3414 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3415 instead of EAI_NODATA
3416 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3417 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3418 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3419 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3420 implementation
3421 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3422 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3423 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3424 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3425 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3426 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3427 allocation in syscall loops)
3428 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3429 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3430 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3431 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3432 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3433 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3434 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3435 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3436 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3437 occur with -O3
3438 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3439 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3440 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3441 amounts)
3442 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3443 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3444 niu_NZ
3445 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3446 checks
3447 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3448 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3449 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3450 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3451 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3452 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3453 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3454 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3455 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3456 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3457 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3458 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3459 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3460 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3461 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3462 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3463 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3464 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3465 parsing after OOM
3466 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3467 object
3468 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3469 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3470 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3471 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3472 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3473 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3474 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3475 ppc64le
3476 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3477 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3478 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3479 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3480 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3481 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3482 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3483 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3484 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3485 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3486 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3487 math_force_eval
3488 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3489 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3490 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3491 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3492 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3493 the svid compat wrapper
3494 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3495 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3496 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3497 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3498 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3499 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3500 --verbose.
3501 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3502 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3503 to 2.26
3504 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3505 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3506 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3507 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3508 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3509 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3510 (CVE-2017-15804)
3511 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3512 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3513 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3514 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3515 failure."
3516 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3517 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3518 -m32
3519 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3520 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3521 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3522 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3523 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3524 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3525 inside the ASCII printable range
3526 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3527 -mlong-double-64
3528 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3529 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3530 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3531 Internet
3532 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3533 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3534 backslash
3535 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3536 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3537 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3538 heaps in an arena
3539 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3540 networking interface
3541 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3542 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3543 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3544 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3545 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3546 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3547 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3548 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3549 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3550 order
3551 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3552 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3553 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3554 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3555 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3556 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3557 same as for Croatian
3558 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3559 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3560 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3561 for initial thread"
3562 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3563 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3564 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3565 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3566 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3567 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3568 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3569 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3570 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3571 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3572 modified in case of success
3573 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3574 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3575 success
3576 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3577 stack-protector=all
3578 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3579 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3580 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3581 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3582 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3583 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3584 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3585 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3586 adding it on top
3587 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3588 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3589 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3590 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3591 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3592 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3593 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3594 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3595 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3596 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3597 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3598 elision and tunables
3599 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3600 "invalid" exception
3601 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3602 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3603 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3604 exception
3605 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3606 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3607 power4
3608 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3609 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3610 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3611 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3612 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3613 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3614 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3615 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3616 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3617
3618 \f
3619 Version 2.26
3620
3621 Major new features:
3622
3623 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3624 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3625 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3626 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3627 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3628 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3629 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3630
3631 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3632 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3633 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3634 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3635 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3636 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3637 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3638
3639 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3640 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3641 Egmont Koblinger.
3642
3643 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3644
3645 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3646 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3647 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3648
3649 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3650 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3651 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3652 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3653 object are still limited to six search domains.
3654
3655 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3656 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3657 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3658
3659 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3660 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3661
3662 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3663 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3664 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3665 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3666
3667 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3668 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3669 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3670 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3671
3672 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3673 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3674 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3675 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3676
3677 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3678 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3679 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3680
3681 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3682 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3683 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3684 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3685
3686 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3687 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3688 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3689 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3690 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3691
3692 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3693 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3694 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3695 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3696 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3697 interfaces should be used instead.
3698
3699 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3700
3701 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3702 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3703 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3704 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3705 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3706 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3707 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3708 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3709
3710 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3711 removed.
3712
3713 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3714 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3715 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3716 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3717
3718 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3719 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3720 default.
3721
3722 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3723 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3724 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3725 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3726 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3727
3728 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3729 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3730 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3731 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3732
3733 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3734 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3735 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3736 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3737
3738 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3739 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3740
3741 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3742 exported by accident.
3743
3744 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3745 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3746 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3747
3748 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3749 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3750 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3751 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3752
3753 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3754
3755 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3756
3757 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3758 free instead.
3759
3760 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3761 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3762
3763 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3764 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3765
3766 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3767 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3768 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3769 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3770 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3771 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3772 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3773 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3774
3775 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3776 synced with the kernel:
3777
3778 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3779 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3780
3781 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3782 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3783 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3784
3785 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3786 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3787
3788 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3789
3790 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3791 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3792 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3793
3794 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3795
3796 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3797 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3798
3799 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3800 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3801 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3802 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3803 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3804
3805 Security related changes:
3806
3807 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3808 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3809
3810 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3811 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3812
3813 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3814 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3815 (CVE-2010-3192).
3816
3817 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3818 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3819
3820 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3821
3822 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3823 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3824 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3825 fields
3826 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3827 (CVE-2010-3192)
3828 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3829 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3830 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3831 ld.bfd is available
3832 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3833 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3834 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3835 x86 and other generic code
3836 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3837 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3838 incorrect
3839 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3840 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3841 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3842 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3843 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3844 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3845 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3846 resolver
3847 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3848 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3849 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3850 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3851 chillu characters
3852 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3853 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3854 receiving data
3855 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3856 whitespace
3857 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3858 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3859 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3860 for Peru
3861 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3862 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3863 failures consistently
3864 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3865 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3866 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3867 frame-pointer on i386
3868 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3869 register
3870 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3871 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3872 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3873 generic c code is used
3874 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3875 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3876 around 4000
3877 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3878 (CVE-2017-12133)
3879 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3880 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3881 with -lieee
3882 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3883 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3884 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3885 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3886 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3887 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3888 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3889 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3890 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3891 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3892 remove()
3893 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3894 checked for errors.
3895 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3896 new posix_spawn implementation
3897 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3898 leads to lower CPU frequency
3899 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3900 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3901 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3902 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3903 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3904 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3905 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3906 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3907 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3908 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3909 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3910 not support gethostbyname4_r
3911 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3912 switching
3913 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3914 arenas
3915 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3916 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3917 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3918 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3919 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3920 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3921 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3922 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3923 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3924 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3925 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3926 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3927 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3928 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3929 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3930 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3931 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3932 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3933 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3934 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3935 retry value
3936 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3937 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3938 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3939 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3940 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3941 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3942 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3943 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3944 [21537] libc:
3945 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3946 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3947 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3948 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3949 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3950 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3951 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3952 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3953 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3954 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3955 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3956 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3957 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3958 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3959 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3960 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3961 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3962 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3963 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3964 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3965 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3966 issue on x86-64
3967 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3968 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3969 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3970 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3971 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3972 construction
3973 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3974 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3975 between_2_3
3976 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3977 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3978 conditions
3979 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3980 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3981 Hindi Locale
3982 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3983 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3984 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3985 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3986 locale
3987 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3988 leading to relocation crash
3989 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3990 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3991 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3992 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3993 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3994 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3995 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3996 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3997 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3998 locale
3999 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4000 locale
4001 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4002 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4003 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4004 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4005 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4006 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4007 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4008 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4009 strings
4010 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4011 protector=all
4012 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4013 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
4014 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4015 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4016 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4017 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4018 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4019 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4020 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4021 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4022 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4023 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4024 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4025 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4026 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4027 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4028 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4029 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4030 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4031 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4032 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4033 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4034 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4035 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4036 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4037 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4038 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4039 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4040 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4041 with unicode 9.0
4042 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4043 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4044 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4045 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4046 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
4047
4048 \f
4049 Version 2.25
4050
4051 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4052 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4053 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4054 Library.
4055
4056 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4057 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4058 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
4059 the GNU C Library.
4060
4061 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4062 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4063 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4064 the GNU C Library.
4065
4066 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4067 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4068 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4069 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4070 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4071 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4072 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4073 will not.
4074
4075 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4076 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4077 many years.
4078
4079 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4080 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4081 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4082
4083 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4084 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4085 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4086 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4087 problem.
4088
4089 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
4090 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4091 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
4092
4093 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4094 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
4095 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4096 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4097 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4098 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4099 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4100 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4101 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4102 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4103 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4104 WINT_WIDTH.
4105
4106 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4107
4108 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4109
4110 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4111 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4112 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
4113
4114 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4115 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4116
4117 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4118 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4119
4120 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4121
4122 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
4123
4124 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4125 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
4126
4127 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4128
4129 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
4130 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
4131
4132 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4133 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4134
4135 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4136 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4137 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4138
4139 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4140 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4141 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4142 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4143 effects of the memory clear).
4144
4145 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4146 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4147 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4148 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4149
4150 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4151 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4152 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4153 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4154 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4155 if they are compiled or used with those options.
4156
4157 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4158 have been added.
4159
4160 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4161 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4162 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4163 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4164 as large as several megabytes.
4165
4166 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4167 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4168 been removed.
4169
4170 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4171 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4172 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4173 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4174 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4175 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4176 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4177
4178 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4179 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4180 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4181 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4182
4183 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
4184 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4185 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4186 Internet.
4187
4188 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4189 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4190 They were already unimplemented.
4191
4192 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4193 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4194 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4195 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4196
4197 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4198 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4199 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4200 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4201 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4202
4203 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4204 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4205 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4206 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4207 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4208
4209 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4210 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4211 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4212 did not reflect that.
4213
4214 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4215 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4216 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4217 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4218 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4219 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4220 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4221 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4222
4223 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4224 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4225 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4226 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4227
4228 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4229 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4230 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4231 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4232
4233 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4234 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4235 guarantees.
4236
4237 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4238 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4239 make state changes.
4240
4241 Security related changes:
4242
4243 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4244 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4245 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4246 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4247 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4248
4249 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4250 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4251 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4252 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4253 (CVE-2015-5180)
4254
4255 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4256
4257 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4258 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4259 protector-all
4260 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4261 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4262 before it started waiting
4263 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4264 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4265 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4266 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4267 wrong type
4268 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4269 library linked with pthread
4270 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4271 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4272 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4273 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4274 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4275 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4276 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4277 when it shouldn't
4278 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4279 not
4280 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4281 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4282 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4283 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4284 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4285 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4286 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4287 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4288 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4289 termination
4290 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4291 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4292 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4293 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4294 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4295 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4296 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4297 causes a segmentation fault
4298 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4299 linking
4300 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4301 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4302 uninitialized GOT
4303 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4304 versions
4305 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4306 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4307 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4308 is always true.
4309 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4310 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4311 modes
4312 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4313 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4314 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4315 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4316 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4317 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4318 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4319 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4320 libpthread.a
4321 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4322 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4323 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4324 _res_hconf
4325 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4326 information.
4327 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4328 penalty
4329 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4330 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4331 cause transition penalty
4332 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4333 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4334 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4335 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4336 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4337 mcount.oS)
4338 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4339 Checking
4340 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4341 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4342 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4343 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4344 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4345 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4346 multi-arch
4347 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4348 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4349 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4350 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4351 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4352 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4353 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4354 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4355 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4356 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4357 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4358 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4359 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4360 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4361 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4362 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4363 glibc
4364 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4365 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4366 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4367 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4368 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4369 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4370 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4371 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4372 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4373 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4374 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4375 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4376 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4377 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4378 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4379 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4380 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4381 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4382 RES_USE_INET6
4383 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4384 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4385 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4386 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4387 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4388 wrong condition
4389 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4390 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4391 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4392 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4393 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4394 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4395 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4396 clang
4397 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4398 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4399 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4400 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4401 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4402 \f
4403 Version 2.24
4404
4405 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4406 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4407 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4408 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4409 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4410 architectures.
4411
4412 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4413 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4414 been included in previous releases.
4415
4416 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4417 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4418
4419 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4420 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4421 instead of “union wait”.
4422
4423 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4424 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4425 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4426 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4427 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4428 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4429 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4430
4431 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4432 API.
4433
4434 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4435 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4436 drop it.
4437
4438 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4439 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4440 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4441 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4442 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4443 extensions.
4444
4445 Security related changes:
4446
4447 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4448 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4449 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4450
4451 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4452 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4453 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4454 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4455
4456 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4457 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4458 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4459
4460 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4461 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4462 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4463
4464 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4465 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4466 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4467 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4468
4469 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4470
4471 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4472 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4473 of MS-DOS.
4474 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4475 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4476 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4477 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4478 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4479 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4480 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4481 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4482 CLDR data
4483 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4484 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4485 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4486 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4487 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4488 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4489 romanisation
4490 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4491 and +/-
4492 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4493 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4494 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4495 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4496 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4497 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4498 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4499 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4500 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4501 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4502 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4503 all locales
4504 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4505 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4506 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4507 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4508 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4509 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4510 execute
4511 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4512 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4513 -Wsystem-headers
4514 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4515 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4516 Romanian locale data
4517 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4518 symbol
4519 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4520 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4521 language
4522 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4523 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4524 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4525 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4526 machine
4527 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4528 description
4529 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4530 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4531 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4532 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4533 when using RTLD_NEXT
4534 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4535 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4536 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4537 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4538 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4539 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4540 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4541 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4542 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4543 Excavator core
4544 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4545 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4546 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4547 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4548 double range
4549 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4550 part zero incorrect
4551 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4552 equality tests
4553 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4554 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4555 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4556 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4557 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4558 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4559 glibc-2.22
4560 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4561 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4562 'tst-numeric.c'
4563 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4564 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4565 low part
4566 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4567 result
4568 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4569 unaligned stack
4570 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4571 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4572 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4573 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4574 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4575 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4576 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4577 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4578 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4579 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4580 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4581 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4582 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4583 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4584 modes
4585 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4586 server addresses
4587 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4588 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4589 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4590 response to getaddrinfo
4591 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4592 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4593 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4594 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4595 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4596 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4597 sometimes incorrect
4598 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4599 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4600 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4601 record types
4602 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4603 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4604 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4605 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4606 (CVE-2016-3075)
4607 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4608 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4609 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4610 resolving symbols
4611 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4612 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4613 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4614 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4615 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4616 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4617 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4618 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4619 gethosts
4620 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4621 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4622 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4623 (CVE-2016-3706)
4624 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4625 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4626 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4627 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4628 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4629 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4630 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4631 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4632 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4633 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4634 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4635 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4636 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4637 executable
4638 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4639 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4640 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4641 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4642 XPG3
4643 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4644 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4645 (CVE-2016-4429)
4646 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4647 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4648 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4649 AS not supporting AVX512
4650 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4651 sNaN argument
4652 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4653 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4654 argument
4655 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4656 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4657 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4658 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4659 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4660 eax=0x80000001
4661 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4662 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4663 subnormals
4664 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4665 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4666 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4667 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4668 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4669 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4670 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4671 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4672 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4673 input
4674 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4675 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4676 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4677 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4678 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4679 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4680 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4681 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4682 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4683 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4684 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4685 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4686 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4687 double rounding
4688 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4689 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4690 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4691 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4692 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4693 (Only arm/linux)
4694 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4695 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4696 fallbacks
4697 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4698 "invalid" exceptions
4699 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4700 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4701 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4702 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4703 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4704 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4705 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4706 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4707 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4708 \f
4709 Version 2.23
4710
4711 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4712 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4713 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4714 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4715 89, 16061, and 18568.
4716
4717 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4718 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4719 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4720 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4721 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4722 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4723 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4724
4725 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4726 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4727 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4728
4729 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4730 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4731 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4732 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4733 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4734 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4735 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4736
4737 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4738 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4739 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4740 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4741 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4742 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4743 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4744 Ericsson.)
4745
4746 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4747 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4748 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4749 independent of the GNU C Library.
4750
4751 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4752 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4753
4754 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4755 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4756 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4757 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4758 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4759 Linux kernel.
4760
4761 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4762 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4763
4764 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4765 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4766 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4767 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4768 defining their own copy.
4769
4770 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4771 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4772 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4773
4774 Security related changes:
4775
4776 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4777 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4778
4779 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4780 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4781 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4782 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4783 (CVE-2015-8777)
4784
4785 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4786 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4787
4788 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4789 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4790
4791 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4792 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4793 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4794
4795 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4796 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4797 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4798 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4799 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4800 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4801 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4802 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4803 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4804 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4805 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4806 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4807 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4808
4809 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4810
4811 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4812 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4813 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4814 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4815 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4816 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4817 use `mkstemp'
4818 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4819 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4820 overflow/underflow errors
4821 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4822 overflow/underflow
4823 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4824 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4825 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4826 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4827 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4828 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4829 are not contiguous
4830 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4831 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4832 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4833 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4834 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4835 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4836 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4837 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4838 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4839 all exceptions
4840 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4841 arguments
4842 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4843 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4844 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4845 should include
4846 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4847 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4848 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4849 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4850 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4851 GNU/Linux
4852 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4853 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4854 arguments
4855 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4856 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4857 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4858 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4859 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4860 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4861 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4862 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4863 rounding results
4864 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4865 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4866 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4867 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4868 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4869 fails
4870 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4871 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4872 block boundary
4873 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4874 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4875 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4876 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4877 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4878 4.7?
4879 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4880 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4881 (related to lock elision)
4882 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4883 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4884 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4885 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4886 (CVE-2015-8779)
4887 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4888 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4889 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4890 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4891 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4892 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4893 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4894 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4895 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4896 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4897 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4898 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4899 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4900 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4901 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4902 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4903 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4904 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4905 contains a vector instruction exception.
4906 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4907 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4908 locales
4909 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4910 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4911 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4912 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4913 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4914 missing break ?
4915 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4916 32bit processes
4917 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4918 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4919 infinity
4920 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4921 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4922 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4923 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4924 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4925 be forced unloaded
4926 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4927 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4928 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4929 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4930 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4931 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4932 statically too large
4933 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4934 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4935 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4936 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4937 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4938 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4939 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4940 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4941 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4942 FUTEX_SHARED
4943 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4944 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4945 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4946 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4947 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4948 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4949 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4950 opendir()
4951 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4952 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4953 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4954 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4955 signgam
4956 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4957 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4958 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4959 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4960 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4961 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4962 dependencies
4963 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4964 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4965 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4966 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4967 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4968 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4969 (CVE-2015-8776)
4970 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4971 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4972 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4973 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4974 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4975 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4976 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4977 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4978 contention
4979 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4980 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4981 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4982 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4983 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4984 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4985 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4986 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4987 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4988 rounding modes
4989 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4990 ILP32
4991 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4992 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4993 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4994 threshold
4995 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4996 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4997 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4998 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4999 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5000 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5001 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5002 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5003 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5004 pthread_setaffinity_np
5005 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5006 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5007 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5008 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5009 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5010 prelink
5011 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5012 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5013 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5014 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5015 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5016 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5017 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5018 bits/mathcalls.h
5019 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5020 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5021 for C99-based standards
5022 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5023 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5024 math-only
5025 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5026 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5027 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5028 disabled
5029 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5030 "inexact" exceptions
5031 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5032 arguments
5033 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5034 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5035 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5036 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5037 rules
5038 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5039 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5040 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5041 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5042 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5043 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5044 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5045 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5046 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5047 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5048 from 32bit
5049 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5050 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5051 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5052 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5053 subnormals
5054 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5055 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5056 error on 32-bit architectures
5057 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5058 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5059 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5060 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5061 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5062 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5063 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5064 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5065 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5066 -Os
5067 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5068 CPU's.
5069 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5070 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5071 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5072 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5073 architectures
5074 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
5075 \f
5076 Version 2.22
5077
5078 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5079
5080 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
5081 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5082 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5083 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5084 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5085 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5086 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5087 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5088 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5089 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5090 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5091 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5092 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5093 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5094 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5095 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5096 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5097 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
5098 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5099 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
5100
5101 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5102 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5103
5104 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5105 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5106 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5107 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5108 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5109 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
5110
5111 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5112 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5113 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5114 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5115 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5116
5117 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5118 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5119 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5120
5121 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5122 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5123 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5124 17998.
5125
5126 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5127 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5128 condition in some applications.
5129
5130 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
5131 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5132 pow, powf.
5133 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5134 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
5135 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5136 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
5137 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
5138
5139 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5140 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5141 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5142 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
5143
5144 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5145 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5146 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
5147
5148 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5149 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
5150
5151 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5152 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5153 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5154
5155 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
5156 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5157 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
5158 \f
5159 Version 2.21
5160
5161 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5162
5163 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5164 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5165 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5166 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5167 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5168 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5169 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5170 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5171 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5172 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5173 17892.
5174
5175 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5176 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5177 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5178 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5179 intended.
5180
5181 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5182 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5183 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5184 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5185 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5186 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
5187
5188 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5189
5190 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5191 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
5192 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
5193
5194 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5195 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5196 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5197 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5198 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5199 effects being visible outside transactions.
5200
5201 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5202 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5203
5204 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5205
5206 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5207 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5208 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5209 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5210 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5211
5212 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5213 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5214
5215 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5216 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5217 format.
5218
5219 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5220 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5221 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5222
5223 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5224 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5225
5226 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5227
5228 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5229 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5230 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5231 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5232
5233 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5234 with newer versions of bison.
5235
5236 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5237 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5238 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5239 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5240 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5241 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5242 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5243 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5244 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5245 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5246 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5247 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5248 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5249
5250 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5251 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5252 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5253 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5254 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5255 \f
5256 Version 2.20
5257
5258 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5259
5260 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5261 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5262 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5263 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5264 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5265 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5266 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5267 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5268 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5269 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5270 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5271 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5272 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5273 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5274 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5275
5276 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5277 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5278 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5279 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5280 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5281 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5282 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5283 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5284 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5285 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5286
5287 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5288 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5289 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5290 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5291 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5292
5293 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5294
5295 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5296 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5297
5298 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5299 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5300 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5301 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5302 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5303 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5304
5305 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5306 from ports.
5307
5308 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5309 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5310 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5311 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5312 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5313 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5314 test macros defined.
5315
5316 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5317
5318 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5319 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5320 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5321 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5322 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5323 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5324 is not built.
5325
5326 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5327 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5328 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5329 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5330 invocation.
5331
5332 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5333 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5334 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5335
5336 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5337 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5338 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5339 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5340
5341 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5342 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5343 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5344 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5345 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5346 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5347 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5348 additional checks.
5349
5350 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5351 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5352 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5353 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5354 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5355 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5356 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5357 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5358 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5359
5360 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5361 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5362 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5363 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5364 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5365 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5366
5367 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5368 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5369 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5370 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5371 \f
5372 Version 2.19
5373
5374 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5375
5376 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5377 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5378 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5379 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5380 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5381 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5382 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5383 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5384 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5385 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5386 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5387 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5388 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5389 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5390 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5391 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5392 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5393 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5394
5395 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5396 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5397
5398 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5399 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5400 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5401 extension which uses __block.
5402
5403 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5404 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5405 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5406 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5407 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5408
5409 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5410 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5411 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5412 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5413 if malloc fails.
5414
5415 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5416 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5417 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5418 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5419 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5420
5421 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5422 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5423 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5424
5425 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5426 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5427 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5428 #15856, #15857).
5429
5430 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5431 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5432
5433 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5434 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5435
5436 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5437
5438 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5439 supported locales.
5440
5441 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5442
5443 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5444
5445 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5446 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5447 for which the C library was built.
5448
5449 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5450 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5451 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5452 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5453 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5454 in the following circumstances:
5455
5456 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5457
5458 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5459 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5460
5461 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5462 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5463
5464 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5465 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5466
5467 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5468
5469 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5470 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5471
5472 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5473
5474 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5475
5476 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5477
5478 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5479 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5480 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5481 disable some of those declarations.
5482
5483 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5484 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5485 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5486
5487 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5488 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5489
5490 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5491 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5492 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5493 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5494 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5495 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5496 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5497 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5498 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5499 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5500 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5501 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5502 require recompilation.
5503 \f
5504 Version 2.18
5505
5506 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5507
5508 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5509 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5510 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5511 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5512 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5513 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5514 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5515 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5516 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5517 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5518 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5519 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5520 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5521 15755, 15759.
5522
5523 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5524 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5525 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5526 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5527 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5528 understands and accepts the risks.
5529
5530 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5531 #15078).
5532
5533 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5534 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5535
5536 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5537 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5538 destructor calls to glibc.
5539
5540 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5541 output.
5542
5543 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5544 non-x86 architectures.
5545
5546 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5547
5548 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5549
5550 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5551 Richard Henderson.
5552
5553 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5554
5555 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5556 Richard Henderson.
5557
5558 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5559 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5560
5561 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5562
5563 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5564 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5565
5566 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5567 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5568
5569 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5570 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5571 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5572
5573 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5574 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5575 attributes of a process.
5576
5577 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5578 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5579 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5580 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5581 mutexes.
5582
5583 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5584 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5585
5586 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5587 \f
5588 Version 2.17
5589
5590 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5591
5592 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5593 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5594 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5595 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5596 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5597 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5598 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5599 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5600 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5601 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5602 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5603 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5604 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5605 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5606 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5607
5608 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5609
5610 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5611 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5612
5613 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5614 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5615
5616 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5617
5618 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5619 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5620 zEnterprise z196.
5621 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5622
5623 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5624 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5625 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5626
5627 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5628 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5629
5630 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5631 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5632
5633 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5634 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5635
5636 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5637 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5638
5639 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5640 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5641 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5642 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5643
5644 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5645 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5646
5647 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5648 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5649 default.
5650
5651 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5652 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5653 information in --help and --version output.
5654
5655 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5656 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5657 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5658
5659 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5660 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5661 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5662 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5663 when the mode is enabled.
5664
5665 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5666 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5667 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5668 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5669 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5670 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5671 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5672
5673 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5674 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
5675 \f
5676 Version 2.16
5677
5678 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5679
5680 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5681 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5682 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5683 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5684 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5685 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5686 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5687 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5688 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5689 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5690 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5691 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5692 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5693 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5694 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5695 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5696 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5697 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5698 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5699 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5700 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5701 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5702 14277, 14278.
5703
5704 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5705 configuring glibc with:
5706 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5707 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5708 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5709
5710 * ISO C11 support:
5711
5712 + define static_assert
5713
5714 + do not declare gets
5715
5716 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5717
5718 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5719 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5720 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5721 implementation.
5722
5723 + timespec_get added
5724
5725 + uchar.h support added
5726
5727 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5728
5729 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5730
5731 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5732
5733 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5734
5735 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5736 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5737
5738 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5739 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5740
5741 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5742 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5743 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5744 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5745 existing applications.
5746
5747 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5748 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5749 before 2.6.
5750
5751 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5752 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5753 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5754
5755 * New locales: mag_IN
5756
5757 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5758 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5759 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5760 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5761 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5762
5763 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5764
5765 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5766 and Will Schmidt.
5767
5768 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5769
5770 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5771 without a previously built glibc.
5772
5773 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5774 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5775
5776 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5777 now supported for ARM processors.
5778
5779 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5780 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5781 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5782
5783 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5784
5785 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5786 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5787 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5788 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5789
5790 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5791 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5792 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5793 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5794
5795 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5796 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5797 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5798 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5799 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5800
5801 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5802 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5803 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5804 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5805 \f
5806 Version 2.15
5807
5808 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5809
5810 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5811 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5812 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5813 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5814 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5815 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5816 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5817
5818 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5819 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5820
5821 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5822 and support for initgroups lookups.
5823 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5824
5825 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5826 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5827
5828 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5829 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5830
5831 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5832 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5833 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5834
5835 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5836 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5837
5838 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5839 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5840 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5841
5842 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5843 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5844
5845 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5846 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5847
5848 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5849 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5850
5851 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5852 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5853
5854 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5855 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5856
5857 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5858 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5859
5860 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5861
5862 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5863 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5864
5865 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5866 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5867
5868 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5869 \f
5870 Version 2.14
5871
5872 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5873
5874 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5875 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5876 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5877 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5878 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5879 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5880 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5881 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5882 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5883 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5884
5885 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5886 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5887 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5888 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5889
5890 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5891 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5892 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5893 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5894
5895 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5896 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5897
5898 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5899 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5900
5901 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5902
5903 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5904 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5905
5906 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5907 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5908 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5909 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5910 \f
5911 Version 2.13
5912
5913 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5914
5915 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5916 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5917 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5918 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5919 12378, 12394, 12397
5920
5921 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5922
5923 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5924
5925 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5926 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5927 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5928 \f
5929 Version 2.12
5930
5931 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5932
5933 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5934 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5935 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5936 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5937 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5938 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5939 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5940 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5941
5942 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5943
5944 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5945
5946 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5947
5948 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5949 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5950 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5951
5952 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5953 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5954 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5955 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5956 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5957
5958 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5959 \f
5960 Version 2.11
5961
5962 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5963
5964 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5965 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5966 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5967 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5968 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5969 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5970
5971 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5972 mkostemps64
5973 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5974
5975 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5976 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5977
5978 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5979 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5980
5981 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5982
5983 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5984 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5985 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5986 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5987
5988 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5989 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5990
5991 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5992 strstr, strcasestr.
5993 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5994
5995 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5996 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5997
5998 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5999 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6000
6001 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6002 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6003
6004 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6005 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6006 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6007 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6008 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6009 necessity is every process again.
6010 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6011
6012 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6013 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6014
6015 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6016 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6017
6018 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6019 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6020 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6021
6022 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
6023 \f
6024 Version 2.10
6025
6026 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6027
6028 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6029 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6030 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6031 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6032 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6033
6034 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
6035 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6036
6037 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
6038 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6039
6040 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
6041 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
6042
6043 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6044 now in POSIX.
6045
6046 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6047 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6048
6049 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6050 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6051
6052 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6053 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6054
6055 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6056 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6057
6058 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6059 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6060 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6061
6062 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
6063
6064 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
6065 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6066
6067 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6068 and extend existing format specifiers.
6069 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6070
6071 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6072 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6073
6074 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6075 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6076 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6077 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6078 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6079 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6080 \f
6081 Version 2.9
6082
6083 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6084
6085 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6086 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6087 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6088 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6089 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
6090
6091 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
6092 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6093
6094 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6095 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
6096
6097 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6098 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6099
6100 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6101 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6102 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6103
6104 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6105 Implemented by Eric Blake.
6106
6107 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
6108
6109 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
6110 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6111
6112 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6113 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6114 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6115 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6116
6117 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6118 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6119
6120 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6121 Sinhala)
6122 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6123
6124 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
6125 \f
6126 Version 2.8
6127
6128 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6129
6130 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6131 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6132 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6133 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6134 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6135 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6136 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6137
6138 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
6139
6140 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
6141
6142 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6143 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6144
6145 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6146
6147 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6148 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6149
6150 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6151 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6152
6153 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6154 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6155 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6156
6157 * Faster memset for x86-64.
6158 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6159
6160 * Faster memcpy on x86.
6161 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6162
6163 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6164 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6165
6166 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
6167 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6168 \f
6169 Version 2.7
6170
6171 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6172
6173 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6174 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6175 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6176 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6177 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6178
6179 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6180 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6181
6182 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6183
6184 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6185 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6186 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6187
6188 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6189 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6190
6191 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
6192 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6193
6194 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6195
6196 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6198
6199 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6200 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6201
6202 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6203 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6204
6205 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6206
6207 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6208 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6209
6210 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6211 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6212 yo_NG.
6213
6214 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6215 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6216 \f
6217 Version 2.6
6218
6219 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6220
6221 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6222 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6223 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6224 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6225 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6226 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6227 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6228 4702, 4858
6229
6230 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6231
6232 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6233
6234 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6235 \f
6236 Version 2.5
6237
6238 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6239
6240 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6241 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6242 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6243 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6244 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6245 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6246 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6247 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6248 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6249
6250 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6251 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6252 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6253
6254 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6255 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6256
6257 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6258
6259 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6260
6261 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6262 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6263 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6264 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6265 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6266
6267 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6268 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6269 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6270 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6271
6272 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6273 Ulrich Drepper.
6274
6275 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6276
6277 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6278 Ulrich Drepper.
6279
6280 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6281
6282 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6283 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6284 \f
6285 Version 2.4
6286
6287 * More overflow detection functions.
6288
6289 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6290 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6291
6292 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6293 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6294 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6295 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6296 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6297 by Masahide Washizawa.
6298
6299 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6300 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6301
6302 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6303 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6304 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6305 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6306
6307 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6308 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6309
6310 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6311
6312 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6313 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6314 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6315
6316 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6317 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6318
6319 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6320 for compatibility with some other systems.
6321
6322 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6323 \f
6324 Version 2.3.6
6325
6326 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6327
6328 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6329 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6330 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6331 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6332 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6333 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6334
6335 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6336
6337 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6338
6339 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6340 \f
6341 Version 2.3.5
6342
6343 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6344
6345 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6346 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6347 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6348 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6349
6350 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6351 \f
6352 Version 2.3.4
6353
6354 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6355 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6356
6357 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6358 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6359 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6360
6361 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6362 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6363
6364 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6365 efficiently.
6366 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6367
6368 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6369 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6370 handling data.
6371
6372 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6373 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6374 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6375
6376 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6377 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6378
6379 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6380 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6381 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6382 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6383
6384 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6385 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6386 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6387 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6388
6389 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6390 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6391 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6392 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6393 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6394 \f
6395 Version 2.3.3
6396
6397 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6398 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6399
6400 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6401 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6402
6403 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6404 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6405
6406 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6407 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6408
6409 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6410 by Roland McGrath.
6411
6412 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6413 and Ulrich Drepper.
6414
6415 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6416 RFC 3484.
6417 \f
6418 Version 2.3.2
6419
6420 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6421 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6422 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6423 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6424 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6425 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6426 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6427 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6428 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6429
6430 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6431 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6432 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6433
6434 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6435
6436 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6437 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6438
6439 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6440 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6441
6442 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6443
6444 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6445 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6446
6447 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6448 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6449 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6450 of weak definition in ld.so.
6451
6452 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6453 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6454
6455 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6456 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6457 \f
6458 Version 2.3
6459
6460 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6461 charsets.
6462
6463 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6464 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6465
6466 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6467 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6468
6469 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6470 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6471
6472 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6473 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6474 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6475
6476 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6477 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6478
6479 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6480 implementation of regex.
6481
6482 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6483 Unicode 3.2.
6484
6485 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6486 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6487
6488 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6489 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6490 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6491
6492 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6493 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6494
6495 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6496 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6497 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6498
6499 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6500 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6501
6502 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6503 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6504 and Ulrich Drepper.
6505
6506 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6507 \f
6508 Version 2.2.6
6509
6510 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6511 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6512
6513 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6514 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6515 \f
6516 Version 2.2.5
6517
6518 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6519 128-bit long double format.
6520
6521 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6522 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6523
6524 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6525
6526 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6527
6528 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6529 as well.
6530
6531 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6532 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6533
6534 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6535 \f
6536 Version 2.2.4
6537
6538 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6539 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6540
6541 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6542 support Unicode 3.1.
6543
6544 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6545 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6546
6547 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6548
6549 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6550 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6551 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6552
6553 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6554 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6555
6556 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6557 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6558
6559 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6560 \f
6561 Version 2.2.3
6562
6563 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6564 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6565 in float, double, and long double format.
6566
6567 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6568 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6569 128-bit long double format.
6570
6571 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6572 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6573 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6574 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6575
6576 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6577 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6578 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6579
6580 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6581 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6582
6583 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6584 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6585
6586 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6587 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6588 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6589
6590 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6591 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6592
6593 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6594 of functions for Linux/x86.
6595
6596 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6597 \f
6598 Version 2.2.2
6599
6600 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6601 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6602 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6603 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6604 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6605 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6606 other headers.
6607
6608 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6609 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6610
6611 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6612 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6613 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6614 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6615
6616 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6617 locales. While
6618
6619 locale -a
6620
6621 only lists the names of the supported locales
6622
6623 locale -a --verbose
6624
6625 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6626 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6627 \f
6628 Version 2.2.1
6629
6630 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6631 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6632 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6633 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6634 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6635
6636 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6637
6638 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6639
6640 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6641
6642 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6643 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6644 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6645
6646 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6647 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6648
6649 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6650 changed from the default "C" locale.
6651
6652 * The usual bug fixes.
6653 \f
6654 Version 2.2
6655
6656 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6657 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6658 is in progress.
6659
6660 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6661
6662 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6663
6664 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6665 obviously requires a database library being available.
6666
6667 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6668
6669 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6670
6671 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6672 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6673
6674 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6675
6676 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6677 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6678 and Mark Kettenis.
6679
6680 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6681 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6682 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6683
6684 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6685 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6686
6687 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6688 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6689 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6690
6691 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6692 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6693 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6694 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6695
6696 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6697 structures for the wide character tables.
6698
6699 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6700
6701 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6702
6703 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6704
6705 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6706 and Yutaka Niibe.
6707
6708 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6709
6710 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6711
6712 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6713
6714 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6715
6716 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6717
6718 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6719 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6720 implemented for Linux.
6721
6722 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6723 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6724 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6725 versions.
6726
6727 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6728 Masahide Washizawa.
6729
6730 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6731 \f
6732 Version 2.1.3
6733
6734 * bug fixes
6735
6736 \f
6737 Version 2.1.2
6738
6739 * bug fixes
6740
6741 \f
6742 Version 2.1.1
6743
6744 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6745
6746 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6747
6748 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6749
6750 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6751
6752 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6753
6754 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6755
6756 * Update timezone data files.
6757
6758 * lots of charmaps corrections
6759
6760 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6761
6762 \f
6763 Version 2.1
6764
6765 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6766 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6767 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6768 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6769 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6770 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6771
6772 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6773 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6774
6775 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6776 symbol level.
6777
6778 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6779 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6780
6781 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6782
6783 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6784 numbers.
6785
6786 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6787
6788 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6789 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6790
6791 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6792 library.
6793
6794 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6795 functions from ISO C 9X.
6796
6797 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6798 real valued functions.
6799
6800 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6801
6802 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6803
6804 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6805
6806 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6807
6808 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6809
6810 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6811
6812 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6813
6814 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6815 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6816
6817 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6818 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6819
6820 user system wall
6821
6822 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6823
6824 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6825
6826 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6827
6828 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6829
6830 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6831
6832 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6833
6834 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6835 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6836 horribly slow.
6837
6838 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6839 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6840
6841 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6842
6843 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6844
6845 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6846 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6847
6848 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6849
6850 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6851 Bambrough.
6852
6853 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6854 latest draft standards.
6855
6856 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6857
6858 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6859 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6860 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6861 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6862 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6863 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6864 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6865 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6866 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6867 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6868 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6869 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6870 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6871 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6872 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6873 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6874 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6875 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6876 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6877 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6878 cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6879 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6880 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6881 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6882 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6883 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6884 capget NEW: kernel
6885 capset NEW: kernel
6886 carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6887 cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6888 cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6889 casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6890 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6891 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6892 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6893 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6894 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6895 catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6896 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6897 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6898 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6899 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6900 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6901 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6902 ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6903 ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6904 ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6905 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6906 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6907 ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6908 cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6909 cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6910 cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6911 cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6912 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6913 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6914 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6915 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6916 clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6917 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6918 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6919 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6920 clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6921 clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6922 conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6923 conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6924 conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6925 cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6926 cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6927 cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6928 cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6929 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6930 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6931 creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6932 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6933 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6934 creat64 NEW: LFS
6935 csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6936 csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6937 csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6938 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6939 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6940 csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6941 csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6942 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6943 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6944 ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6945 ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6946 ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6947 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6948 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6949 ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6950 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6951 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6952 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6953 exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6954 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6955 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6956 exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6957 exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6958 exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6959 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6960 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6961 fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6962 fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6963 fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6964 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6965 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6966 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6967 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6968 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6969 feof_locked REMOVED
6970 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6971 ferror_locked REMOVED
6972 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6973 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6974 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6975 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6976 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6977 fflush_locked REMOVED
6978 ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6979 ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6980 fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6981 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6982 fileno_locked REMOVED
6983 fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6984 fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6985 fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6986 fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6987 fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6988 fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6989 fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6990 fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6991 fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
6992 fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
6993 fopen64 NEW: LFS
6994 fputc_locked REMOVED
6995 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6996 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6997 freopen64 NEW: LFS
6998 fseeko NEW: Unix98
6999 fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
7000 fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
7001 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7002 fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
7003 ftello NEW: Unix98
7004 ftello64 NEW: LFS
7005 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7006 ftw64 NEW: LFS
7007 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7008 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7009 gamma_r REMOVED
7010 gammaf_r REMOVED
7011 gammal_r REMOVED
7012 getchar_locked REMOVED
7013 getdate NEW: Unix98
7014 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7015 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7016 getmsg NEW: STREAMS
7017 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
7018 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
7019 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7020 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7021 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7022 getutxent NEW: Unix98
7023 getutxid NEW: Unix98
7024 getutxline NEW: Unix98
7025 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7026 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7027 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7028 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7029 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7030 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7031 iconv NEW: iconv
7032 iconv_close NEW: iconv
7033 iconv_open NEW: iconv
7034 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7035 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7036 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7037 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7038 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7039 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7040 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7041 isastream NEW: STREAMS
7042 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
7043 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7044 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7045 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7046 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7047 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7048 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7049 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7050 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7051 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
7052 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7053 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7054 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7055 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7056 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7057 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7058 log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7059 log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7060 log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7061 lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7062 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7063 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7064 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7065 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7066 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7067 lseek64 NEW: LFS
7068 makecontext NEW: Unix98
7069 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7070 mmap64 NEW: LFS
7071 moncontrol REMOVED
7072 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7073 nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7074 nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7075 nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7076 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7077 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7078 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7079 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7080 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
7081 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7082 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7083 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
7084 nftw NEW: Unix98
7085 nftw64 NEW: LFS
7086 open64 NEW: LFS
7087 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
7088 pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7089 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7090 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7091 pread NEW: Unix98
7092 pread64 NEW: LFS
7093 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7094 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7095 profil_counter REMOVED
7096 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7097 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7098 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7099 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7100 putc_locked REMOVED
7101 putchar_locked REMOVED
7102 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7103 putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7104 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7105 pututxline NEW: Unix98
7106 pwrite NEW: Unix98
7107 pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7108 readdir64 NEW: LFS
7109 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7110 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7111 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7112 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7113 round NEW: ISO C 9x
7114 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7115 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7116 rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7117 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7118 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7119 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7120 scandir64 NEW: LFS
7121 sendfile NEW: kernel
7122 setcontext NEW: Unix98
7123 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7124 setutxent NEW: Unix98
7125 sighold NEW: Unix98
7126 sigignore NEW: Unix98
7127 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7128 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7129 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7130 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7131 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7132 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7133 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7134 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7135 statfs64 NEW: LFS
7136 statvfs NEW: Unix98
7137 statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7138 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
7139 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7140 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7141 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
7142 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
7143 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7144 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7145 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7146 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7147 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7148 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7149 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7150 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7151 tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7152 trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7153 truncate64 NEW: LFS
7154 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7155 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7156 umount2 NEW: kernel
7157 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7158 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
7159 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7160 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
7161 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
7162 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
7163 waitid NEW: Unix98
7164 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7165 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7166 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7167 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7168 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7169 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7170 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7171 wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7172 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7173 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7174 write_profiling REMOVED
7175 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7176 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7177 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7178 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7179 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7180 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7181 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7182 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7183 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7184 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7185 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7186 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7187 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
7188 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
7189 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7190 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7191 \f
7192 Version 2.0.6
7193
7194 * more bug fixes
7195
7196 \f
7197 Version 2.0.5
7198
7199 * more bug fixes
7200
7201 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7202
7203 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7204
7205 * rewrite of cbrt function
7206
7207 * update of timezone data
7208 \f
7209 Version 2.0.4
7210
7211 * more bug fixes
7212 \f
7213 Version 2.0.3
7214
7215 * more bug fixes
7216 \f
7217 Version 2.0.2
7218
7219 * more bug fixes
7220
7221 * add atoll function
7222
7223 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7224
7225 * fix math functions
7226 \f
7227 Version 2.0.1
7228
7229 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7230
7231 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7232
7233 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7234 the ELF dynamic loader.
7235
7236 * support for parallel builds is improved
7237 \f
7238 Version 2.0
7239
7240 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7241 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7242 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7243
7244 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7245 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7246 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7247 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7248 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7249 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7250 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7251 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7252 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7253 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7254 files in the ELF format.
7255
7256 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7257 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7258
7259 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7260 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7261 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7262 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7263 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7264 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7265 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7266 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7267 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7268 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7269 about dynamically linked binaries.
7270
7271 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7272 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7273 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7274 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7275 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7276
7277 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7278 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7279 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7280 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7281 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7282
7283 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7284
7285 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7286 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7287 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7288 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7289 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7290 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7291 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7292 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7293 NSS services available.
7294
7295 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7296 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7297 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7298
7299 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7300 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7301 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7302
7303 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7304 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7305 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7306 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7307
7308 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7309 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7310 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7311
7312 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7313 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7314 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7315
7316 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7317 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7318
7319 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7320 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7321 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7322 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7323
7324 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7325 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7326 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7327
7328 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7329 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7330 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7331 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7332 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7333 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7334 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7335 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7336
7337 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7338 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7339 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7340 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7341 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7342 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7343 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7344
7345 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7346 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7347 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7348 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7349 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7350 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7351
7352 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7353 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7354
7355 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7356 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7357 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7358
7359 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7360
7361 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7362 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7363 their use is discouraged.
7364
7365 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7366 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7367
7368 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7369 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7370
7371 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7372 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7373
7374 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7375 see <dirent.h>.
7376
7377 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7378 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7379 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7380 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7381 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7382
7383 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7384 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7385 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7386 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7387
7388 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7389 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7390
7391 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7392 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7393 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7394 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7395 number generator.
7396
7397 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7398 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7399
7400 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7401 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7402
7403 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7404 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7405 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7406 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7407
7408 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7409
7410 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7411 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7412 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7413
7414 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7415 for arithmetic and string handling.
7416
7417 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7418 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7419 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7420 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7421
7422 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7423 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7424 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7425 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7426 programs already written to use it.)
7427
7428 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7429 constants.
7430
7431 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7432 with 4.4 BSD.
7433
7434 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7435 a given effective group ID.
7436
7437 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7438 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7439 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7440 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7441
7442 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7443 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7444 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7445 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7446 doing the same thing.
7447
7448 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7449 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7450
7451 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7452 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7453
7454 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7455
7456 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7457 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7458 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7459 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7460 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7461
7462 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7463 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7464
7465 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7466 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7467 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7468 function.
7469
7470 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7471
7472 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7473 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7474 strings.
7475
7476 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7477 and writing the utmp file.
7478
7479 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7480 Thorsten Kukuk.
7481
7482 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7483 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7484 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7485
7486 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7487 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7488
7489 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7490 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7491 specification.
7492
7493 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7494 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7495 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7496 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7497
7498 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7499 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7500 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7501
7502 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7503 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7504 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7505 expression matcher.
7506
7507 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7508 functionality.
7509
7510 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7511 by Ulrich Drepper.
7512
7513 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7514
7515 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7516 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7517 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7518 \f
7519 Version 1.09
7520
7521 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7522
7523 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7524 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7525
7526 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7527 want to put themselves in the background.
7528
7529 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7530 run without an operating system.
7531
7532 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7533 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7534
7535 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7536 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7537
7538 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7539
7540 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7541 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7542 have YP (aka NIS).
7543
7544 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7545 conventions.
7546
7547 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7548 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7549 \f
7550 Version 1.08
7551
7552 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7553 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7554 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7555
7556 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7557 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7558
7559 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7560 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7561
7562 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7563
7564 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7565
7566 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7567 compatibility.
7568
7569 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7570 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7571 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7572
7573 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7574
7575 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7576 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7577 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7578
7579 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7580 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7581 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7582 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7583 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7584 on a block).
7585
7586 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7587 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7588 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7589 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7590 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7591 cross-compiler.
7592
7593 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7594 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7595 \f
7596 Version 1.07
7597
7598 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7599 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7600
7601 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7602 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7603 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7604
7605 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7606 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7607 address of the last character written.
7608
7609 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7610 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7611
7612 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7613 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7614
7615 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7616 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7617 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7618 you dereference this pointer.
7619
7620 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7621 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7622
7623 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7624 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7625 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7626 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7627
7628 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7629 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7630 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7631 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7632 \f
7633 Version 1.06
7634
7635 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7636 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7637 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7638 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7639 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7640
7641 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7642
7643 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7644
7645 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7646 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7647
7648 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7649 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7650
7651 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7652 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7653
7654 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7655 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7656 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7657 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7658 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7659
7660 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7661 to the error code in `errno'.
7662
7663 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7664 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7665 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7666 malloc'd string.
7667
7668 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7669 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7670 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7671
7672 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7673 uniquely-named temporary file.
7674 \f
7675 Version 1.05
7676
7677 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7678 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7679 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7680
7681 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7682 characters.
7683
7684 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7685 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7686
7687 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7688 \f
7689 Version 1.04
7690
7691 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7692 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7693 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7694 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7695
7696 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7697 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7698 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7699
7700 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7701 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7702
7703 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7704 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7705 made itself into a shared library.
7706
7707 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7708 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7709
7710 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7711 with limited length.
7712
7713 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7714
7715 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7716
7717 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7718
7719 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7720 function for traversing a directory tree.
7721
7722 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7723 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7724 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7725 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7726
7727 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7728 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7729
7730 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7731
7732 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7733 things to your strings.
7734
7735 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7736
7737 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7738 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7739 supporting those systems.
7740
7741 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7742 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7743 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7744 configuration files.
7745
7746 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7747 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7748
7749 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7750 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7751 in <strings.h>.)
7752
7753 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7754 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7755 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7756 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7757 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7758 required storage is not available.
7759
7760 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7761 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7762
7763 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7764 latest files released from Berkeley.
7765 \f
7766 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
7767 Copying conditions:
7768
7769 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7770 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7771 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7772 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7773
7774 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7775 of this document, or of portions of it,
7776 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7777 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7778 \f
7779 Local variables:
7780 version-control: never
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