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