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12 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _SC_SIGSTKSZ_SOURCE or
13 _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
14 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
15 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ).
17 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
18 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
19 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
21 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
23 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
25 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
27 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
28 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
29 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
30 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
32 Security related changes:
34 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
35 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
36 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
37 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
39 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
41 [The release manager will add the list generated by
42 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
49 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
50 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
51 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
53 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
54 to change argv[0] string.
56 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
57 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
58 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
59 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
60 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
61 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
62 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
63 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
64 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
66 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
67 information and library search path diagnostics.
69 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
70 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
71 larger than fit in an integer.
73 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
75 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
76 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
82 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
85 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
86 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
87 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
88 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
91 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
93 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
96 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
97 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
98 Instead, the default implementation is used.
100 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
101 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
102 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
105 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
106 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
107 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
109 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
110 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
111 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
112 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
113 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
114 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
116 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
117 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
118 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
119 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
120 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
121 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
124 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
126 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
127 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
128 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
129 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
130 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
131 perform any adjustments.
133 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
134 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
135 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
136 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
138 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
140 Security related changes:
142 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
143 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
144 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
145 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
146 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
148 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
149 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
150 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
152 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
153 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
155 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
156 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
158 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
160 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
161 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
162 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
163 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
165 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
166 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
167 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
168 "haswell" platform subdirectory
169 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
171 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
173 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
175 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
176 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
177 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
178 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
179 changing gnuc version
180 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
182 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
184 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
185 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
186 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
187 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
188 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
189 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
190 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
191 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
192 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
194 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
195 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
196 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
198 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
200 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
201 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
203 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
204 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
205 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
206 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
207 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
209 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
210 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
211 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
213 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
214 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
215 at the end of a memory mapping
216 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
217 by the caller to the kernel
218 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
219 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
220 declarations for __sigsetjmp
221 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
223 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
224 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
225 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
226 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
227 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
228 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
229 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
231 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
232 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
233 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
234 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
236 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
238 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
240 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
241 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
242 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
243 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
245 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
247 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
248 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
249 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
251 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
253 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
255 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
257 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
258 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
259 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
260 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
262 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
264 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
266 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
267 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
268 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
270 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
271 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
272 [27177] dynamic-link:
273 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
275 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
276 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
277 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
278 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
285 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
286 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
287 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
289 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
291 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
292 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
293 Three ABIs are supported:
299 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
300 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
302 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
303 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
305 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
306 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
307 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
310 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
311 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
312 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
314 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
315 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
316 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
318 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
319 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
320 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
321 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
324 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
325 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
326 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
327 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
328 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
329 NULL for an invalid signal number.
331 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
332 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
334 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
335 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
336 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
337 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
338 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
339 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
341 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
342 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
344 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
345 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
346 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
347 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
348 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
349 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
350 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
351 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
352 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
353 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
354 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
357 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
359 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
360 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
361 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
362 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
363 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
364 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
365 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
367 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
368 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
369 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
370 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
371 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
372 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
373 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
374 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
375 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
377 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
378 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
379 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
380 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
381 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
383 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
384 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
385 was not declared in any header file.
387 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
388 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
389 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
390 sigaction functions instead.
392 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
393 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
395 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
396 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
397 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
398 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
401 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
402 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
403 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
404 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
405 strerror or strerror_r instead.
407 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
408 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
409 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
410 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
412 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
413 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
414 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
415 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
416 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
417 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
418 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
420 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
421 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
422 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
423 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
424 flavor of secure RPC.)
426 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
427 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
428 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
429 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
430 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
431 object, to enable the hooks.
433 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
434 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
435 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
438 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
440 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
441 long double redirects.
443 Security related changes:
445 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
446 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
447 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
449 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
450 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
451 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
453 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
454 expanding ~user has been fixed.
456 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
457 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
458 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
461 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
463 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
464 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
465 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
466 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
467 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
468 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
469 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
470 filtee has constructor
471 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
472 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
473 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
474 character entities for infinity & pi
475 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
476 segfaults in applications
477 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
478 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
479 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
480 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
481 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
482 function with -mlong-double-64
483 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
485 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
487 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
488 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
489 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
490 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
491 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
492 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
494 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
495 dynamically loaded dsos
496 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
497 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
499 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
500 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
501 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
502 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
503 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
504 stale configuration forever
505 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
507 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
509 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
510 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
512 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
513 on 32 bit and old kernel
514 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
515 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
517 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
518 amount of sigset_t bytes
519 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
521 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
522 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
523 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
524 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
525 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
526 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
527 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
528 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
529 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
530 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
532 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
533 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
534 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
535 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
536 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
537 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
538 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
540 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
541 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
543 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
544 exiting detached thread
545 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
547 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
549 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
550 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
551 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
552 dependencies in audit mode
553 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
554 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
555 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
556 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
557 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
559 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
560 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
562 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
563 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
565 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
566 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
567 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
568 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
569 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
570 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
578 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
579 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
580 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
581 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
582 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
583 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
585 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
586 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
587 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
588 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
590 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
591 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
592 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
594 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
596 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
597 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
598 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
599 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
600 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
601 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
602 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
603 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
605 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
607 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
608 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
609 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
610 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
611 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
612 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
614 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
615 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
616 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
618 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
619 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
620 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
621 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
623 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
624 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
625 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
626 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
627 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
628 made this no longer practical.
630 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
631 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
632 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
633 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
636 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
637 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
638 with the current time, use the localtime function.
640 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
641 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
642 using clock_gettime instead.
644 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
645 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
646 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
647 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
648 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
650 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
651 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
652 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
653 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
655 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
656 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
657 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
658 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
659 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
660 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
662 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
663 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
664 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
665 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
668 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
669 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
670 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
672 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
675 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
676 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
677 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
678 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
679 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
681 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
682 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
683 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
684 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
685 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
686 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
687 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
688 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
690 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
691 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
693 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
694 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
695 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
696 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
697 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
698 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
700 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
702 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
703 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
704 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
706 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
707 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
708 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
710 Security related changes:
712 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
713 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
715 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
716 environment variable during program execution after a security
717 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
718 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
719 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
721 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
723 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
724 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
725 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
726 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
727 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
728 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
729 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
730 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
732 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
733 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
734 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
735 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
736 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
737 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
738 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
739 constructors/destructors is not fatal
740 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
741 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
743 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
745 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
746 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
747 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
748 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
749 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
750 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
751 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
753 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
755 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
756 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
757 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
758 (stringop-overflow error)
759 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
760 functions other can lead to crashes
761 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
762 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
764 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
765 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
766 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
767 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
768 still can fail with an error
769 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
770 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
771 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
772 initialized correctly
773 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
775 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
777 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
778 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
779 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
781 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
783 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
785 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
787 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
788 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
789 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
791 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
792 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
794 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
795 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
796 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
797 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
798 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
799 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
806 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
807 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
808 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
810 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
811 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
813 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
814 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
815 to the callback function.
817 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
819 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
820 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
823 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
825 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
826 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
827 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
828 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
829 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
831 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
832 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
833 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
834 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
835 link time reference, is gone.
837 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
838 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
839 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
840 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
841 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
842 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
843 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
844 the clock choice at initialization time).
846 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
847 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
848 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
850 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
852 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
853 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
854 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
855 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
856 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
857 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
858 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
859 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
860 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
862 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
863 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
864 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
865 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
868 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
869 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
871 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
872 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
874 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
875 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
877 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
880 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
881 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
882 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
884 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
885 header have been removed.
887 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
888 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
889 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
890 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
892 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
894 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
896 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
897 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
899 Security related changes:
901 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
902 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
903 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
904 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
905 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
906 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
907 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
909 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
910 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
911 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
913 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
915 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
916 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
917 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
918 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
919 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
920 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
921 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
922 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
923 invalid input drops valid char
924 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
925 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
926 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
927 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
928 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
930 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
931 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
932 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
933 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
935 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
936 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
937 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
938 for long double = double
939 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
941 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
942 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
943 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
945 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
946 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
948 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
949 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
950 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
951 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
952 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
953 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
954 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
955 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
956 not the default "nor"
957 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
958 false positives, change to modern flexible array
959 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
960 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
962 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
963 unnecessary librt dependencies
964 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
965 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
966 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
967 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
969 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
970 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
972 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
973 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
975 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
976 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
977 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
978 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
980 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
981 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
982 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
983 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
985 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
987 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
988 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
990 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
991 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
992 kernels and break testing
993 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
994 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
995 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
996 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
997 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
998 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
999 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1001 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1002 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1004 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1006 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1007 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1008 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1009 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1010 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1011 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1012 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1013 always implemented in the same library
1014 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1015 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1016 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1024 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1025 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1027 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1028 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1029 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1030 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1031 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1032 configured location.
1034 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
1036 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1037 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1039 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1040 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1041 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1042 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1043 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1044 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1045 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1046 process actually does not use HTM).
1048 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1049 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1050 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1051 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1052 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1055 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1056 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1057 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
1058 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
1059 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1061 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1062 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1064 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1065 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1067 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1068 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1069 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1070 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1071 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1072 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1073 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1075 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1076 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1077 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1079 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1081 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1082 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
1084 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1085 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1086 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1087 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1089 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1090 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1091 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1092 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1095 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1096 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1097 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1098 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1099 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1100 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1102 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1103 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1104 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1105 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1106 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1108 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1109 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1110 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1112 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1114 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1116 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1117 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1119 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1120 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1122 Security related changes:
1124 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1125 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1126 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1128 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1129 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1130 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1131 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1132 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1134 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1135 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1136 or command injection issues in applications.
1138 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1140 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1141 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1142 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1144 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1145 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1146 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1148 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1149 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1150 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1151 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1152 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1153 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1154 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1155 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1156 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1157 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1158 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1159 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1160 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1161 pointer argument is non-NULL
1162 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1163 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1164 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1165 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1166 multithreads call popen
1167 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1168 and pthread_create fails.
1169 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1170 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1172 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1173 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1174 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1176 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1178 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1180 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1181 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1183 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1184 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1185 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1186 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1187 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1188 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1189 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1191 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1192 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1193 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1195 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1196 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1197 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1198 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1200 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1202 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1203 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1204 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1205 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1207 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1209 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1210 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1211 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1213 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1214 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1215 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1216 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1217 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1218 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1220 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1221 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1222 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1223 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1224 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1225 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1226 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1227 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1228 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1229 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1230 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1231 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1232 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1233 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1235 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1236 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1237 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1238 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1239 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1241 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1242 nearest rounding mode
1243 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1244 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1245 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1246 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1247 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1248 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1249 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1250 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1251 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1253 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1254 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1256 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1257 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1258 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1259 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1261 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1263 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1265 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1267 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1268 answers will be rejected)
1269 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1276 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1277 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1278 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1279 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1280 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1281 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1282 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1283 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1284 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1285 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1286 archive or binary locales.
1288 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1289 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1290 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1291 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1292 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1293 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1294 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1295 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
1296 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1297 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1298 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1301 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1302 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1303 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1304 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1305 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1306 field) to indicate such support is required.
1308 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1309 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1310 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1312 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1313 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1315 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1316 fMxaddfNx functions.
1318 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1319 fMxsubfNx functions.
1321 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1322 fMxmulfNx functions.
1324 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1325 fMxdivfNx functions.
1327 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
1328 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
1329 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
1330 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1333 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
1334 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
1336 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1339 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1340 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1341 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1342 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1343 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1344 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1345 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1346 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1348 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1349 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1350 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1351 the fstatat64 function.
1353 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1354 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1355 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1356 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1357 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1358 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1359 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1360 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1361 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1363 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1364 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1365 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1366 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1367 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1368 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1369 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1370 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1371 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1372 results in a load failure now.
1374 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1375 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1378 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1379 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1381 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1382 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1384 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1386 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1387 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1389 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1391 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1393 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1395 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1396 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1397 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1399 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1400 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1401 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1402 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1403 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1404 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1406 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1407 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1408 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1409 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1410 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1411 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1414 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1415 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1416 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1417 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1418 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1419 further explanation.
1421 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1422 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1423 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
1425 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1427 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1428 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1429 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1431 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1432 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1433 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1434 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1436 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1437 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1438 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1439 for this function instead.
1441 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1442 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1443 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1445 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1446 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1447 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1448 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1450 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1451 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1452 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1453 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1454 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1456 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1457 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1458 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1459 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1460 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1461 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1464 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1465 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1466 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1469 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1470 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1471 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1473 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1474 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1475 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1476 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1477 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1478 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1480 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1481 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1482 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1483 behavior in a future release.
1485 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1487 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
1489 Security related changes:
1491 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1492 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1493 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1494 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
1496 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1497 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1499 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1500 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1503 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1504 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1505 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1507 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1509 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1510 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1511 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1512 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1513 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1514 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1515 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1516 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1517 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1519 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1520 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1521 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1522 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1523 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1525 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1527 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1528 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1529 scope with -O1 and higher
1530 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1531 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1532 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1533 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1534 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1535 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1536 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1537 horrible machine code)
1538 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1540 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1541 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1543 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1544 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1546 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1547 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1548 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1549 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1550 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1552 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1553 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1554 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1555 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1556 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1558 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1559 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1560 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1562 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1563 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1564 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1565 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1566 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1567 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1568 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1569 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1570 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1571 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1572 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1573 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1574 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1576 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1578 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1579 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1580 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1581 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1582 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1583 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1584 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1585 for Spanish with CLDR
1586 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1587 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1588 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1589 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1590 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1591 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1593 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1595 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1596 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1597 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1598 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1600 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1601 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1602 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1603 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1604 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1605 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1606 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1607 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1608 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1609 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1610 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1611 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1612 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1613 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1614 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1615 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1616 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1618 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1619 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1621 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1622 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1623 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1624 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1625 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1626 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1628 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1630 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1631 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1632 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1633 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1634 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1635 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1636 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1637 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1638 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1639 and libc build with -Os)
1640 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1641 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1642 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1643 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1644 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1645 that changes /etc/passwd
1646 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1648 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1649 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1650 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1652 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1653 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1654 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1655 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1656 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1658 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1659 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1661 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1662 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1663 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1664 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1666 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1667 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1668 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1669 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1671 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1673 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1675 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1677 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1679 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1680 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1681 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1682 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1683 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1684 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1685 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1686 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1688 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
1695 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1696 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
1697 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
1698 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1699 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1700 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1701 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
1702 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1703 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
1705 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
1706 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1709 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1711 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
1713 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1714 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1715 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1716 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1717 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1718 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1719 from a security and performance perspective.
1721 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1722 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1723 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1724 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1726 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
1727 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1728 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1729 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
1730 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1732 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
1733 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
1734 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1735 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1738 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1739 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1740 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
1742 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
1744 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1745 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1748 * The copy_file_range function was added.
1750 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1752 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1753 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1754 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1756 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1757 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1758 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1759 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1760 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1761 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1762 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1764 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1765 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1766 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1767 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1768 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1769 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1770 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1772 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1773 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1774 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1775 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1778 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1779 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1780 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1781 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1783 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1784 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1785 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1787 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1788 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1789 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1791 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1792 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1793 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1799 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1801 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1802 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1803 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1804 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1805 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1806 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1807 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1808 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1809 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1812 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1813 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1814 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1816 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1817 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1818 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1819 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1820 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1821 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1822 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1823 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1824 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1825 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1826 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1827 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1828 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1829 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1830 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1831 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1832 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1833 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1834 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1835 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1836 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1837 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1838 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1839 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1840 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1841 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1843 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1844 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1846 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1847 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1848 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1849 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1850 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1851 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1852 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1854 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1855 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1856 exp10l for these functions instead.
1858 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1859 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1860 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1862 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1863 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1866 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1867 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1868 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1869 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1871 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1872 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1874 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1875 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1877 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1880 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1882 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1883 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1884 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1887 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1888 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1889 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1890 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1891 use, but predates the bits convention.
1893 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1895 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1898 Security related changes:
1900 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1901 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1902 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1903 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1906 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1907 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1908 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1909 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1911 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1912 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1913 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1916 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1917 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1918 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1920 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1921 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1922 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1923 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1925 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1926 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1927 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1930 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1931 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1932 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1933 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1934 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1936 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1937 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1940 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1941 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1942 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1944 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1945 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1946 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1948 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1949 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1950 small, instead of NULL.
1952 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1954 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1955 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1956 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1958 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1959 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1960 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1962 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1963 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1964 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1965 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1966 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1967 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1968 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1969 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1970 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1972 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1973 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1974 width Latin characters
1975 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1976 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1977 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1979 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1980 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1982 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1983 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1984 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1985 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1986 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1988 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1989 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1990 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1991 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1992 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1993 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1994 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1995 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1996 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1997 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1999 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2000 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2001 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2002 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2003 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2004 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2005 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2006 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2008 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2009 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2011 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2012 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2014 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2015 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2016 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2017 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2018 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2019 __regcall calling convention
2020 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2021 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2022 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2023 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2024 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2025 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2026 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2027 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2028 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2029 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2030 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2031 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2032 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2034 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2036 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2038 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2039 consistency check failures
2040 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2041 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2042 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2043 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2045 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2047 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2048 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2049 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2050 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2051 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2052 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2053 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2054 on memory allocation failure
2055 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2056 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2058 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2060 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2061 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2062 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2063 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2064 instead of EAI_NODATA
2065 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2066 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2067 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2068 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2070 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2071 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2072 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2073 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2074 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2075 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2076 allocation in syscall loops)
2077 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2078 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2079 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2080 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2081 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2082 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2083 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2084 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2085 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2087 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2088 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2089 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2091 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2092 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2094 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2096 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2097 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2098 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2099 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2100 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2101 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2102 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2103 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2104 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2105 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2106 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2107 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2108 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2109 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2110 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2111 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2112 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2113 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2115 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2117 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2118 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2120 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2121 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2122 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
2123 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
2125 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2126 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2127 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2128 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2129 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2130 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2131 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2132 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2133 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2134 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2135 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2137 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2138 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2139 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2140 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2141 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2142 the svid compat wrapper
2143 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2144 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2145 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2146 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2147 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2148 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2150 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2151 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2153 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2154 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2155 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2156 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2157 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2158 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2160 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2161 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2162 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2163 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2165 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2166 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2168 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2169 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2170 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2171 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2172 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2173 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2174 inside the ASCII printable range
2175 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2177 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2178 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2179 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2181 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2182 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2184 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2185 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2186 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2188 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2189 networking interface
2190 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2191 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2192 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2193 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2194 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2195 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2196 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2197 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2198 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2200 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2201 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2202 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2203 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2204 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2205 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2206 same as for Croatian
2207 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2208 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2209 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2211 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2213 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2214 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2215 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2216 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2217 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2219 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2220 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2221 modified in case of success
2222 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2223 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2225 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2227 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2228 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2229 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2230 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2231 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2232 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2233 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2234 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2236 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2237 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2238 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2239 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2240 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2241 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2242 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2243 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2244 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2246 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2247 elision and tunables
2248 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2250 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2251 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2252 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2254 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2255 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2257 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2258 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2259 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2260 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2261 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2262 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2263 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2264 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2265 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2272 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2273 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2274 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2275 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2276 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2277 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2278 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2280 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2281 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
2282 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2283 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2284 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2285 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2286 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
2288 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2289 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2292 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
2294 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2295 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2296 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
2298 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2299 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2300 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2301 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2302 object are still limited to six search domains.
2304 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2305 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2306 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
2308 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2309 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
2311 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2312 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2313 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2314 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
2316 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2317 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2318 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2319 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
2321 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2322 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2323 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2324 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2326 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2327 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2328 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
2330 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
2331 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2332 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2333 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2335 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
2336 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2337 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2338 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2339 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2341 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2342 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2343 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2344 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2345 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2346 interfaces should be used instead.
2348 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2350 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2351 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2352 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2353 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2354 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2355 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2356 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2357 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2359 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2362 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
2363 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2364 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2365 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2367 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2368 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2371 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2372 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2373 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
2374 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2375 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2377 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2378 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2379 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2380 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2382 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2383 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2384 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2385 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2387 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2388 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
2390 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2391 exported by accident.
2393 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2394 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2395 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2397 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2398 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2399 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2400 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2402 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2404 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2406 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2409 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2410 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2412 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2413 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2415 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2416 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2417 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2418 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2419 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2420 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2421 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2422 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2424 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2425 synced with the kernel:
2427 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2428 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2430 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2431 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2432 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2434 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2435 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2437 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2439 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2440 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2443 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
2445 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2446 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
2448 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2449 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2450 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2451 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2452 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
2454 Security related changes:
2456 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
2457 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2459 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2460 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2462 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2463 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2466 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2467 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
2469 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2471 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2472 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2473 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2475 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2477 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2478 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2479 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2481 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2482 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2483 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2484 x86 and other generic code
2485 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2486 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2488 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2489 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2490 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2491 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2492 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2493 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2494 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2496 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2497 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2498 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2499 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2501 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2502 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2504 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2506 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2507 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2508 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2510 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2511 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2512 failures consistently
2513 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2514 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2515 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2516 frame-pointer on i386
2517 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2519 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2520 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2521 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2522 generic c code is used
2523 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2524 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2526 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2528 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2529 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2531 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2532 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2533 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2534 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2535 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2536 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2537 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2538 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2539 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2540 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2542 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2544 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2545 new posix_spawn implementation
2546 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2547 leads to lower CPU frequency
2548 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2549 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2550 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2551 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2552 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2553 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2554 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2555 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2556 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2557 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2558 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2559 not support gethostbyname4_r
2560 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2562 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2564 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2565 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2566 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2567 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2568 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2569 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2570 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2572 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2573 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2574 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2575 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2576 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2577 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2578 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2579 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2580 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2581 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2582 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2583 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2585 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2586 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2587 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2588 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2589 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2590 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2591 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2592 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2594 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2595 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2596 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2597 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2598 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2599 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2600 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2601 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2602 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2603 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2604 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2605 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2606 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2607 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2608 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2609 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2610 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2611 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2612 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2613 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2614 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2616 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2617 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2618 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2619 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2620 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2622 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2623 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2625 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2626 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2628 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2629 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2631 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2632 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2633 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2634 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2636 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2637 leading to relocation crash
2638 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2639 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2640 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2641 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2642 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2643 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2644 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2645 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2646 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2648 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2650 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2651 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2652 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2653 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2654 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2655 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2656 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2657 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2659 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2661 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2663 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2664 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2665 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2666 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2667 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2668 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2669 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2670 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2671 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2672 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2673 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2674 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2675 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2676 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2677 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2678 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2679 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2680 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2681 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2682 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2683 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2684 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2685 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2686 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2687 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2688 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2689 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2691 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2692 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2693 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2694 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2695 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
2700 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2701 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2702 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2705 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2706 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2707 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
2710 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2711 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2712 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2715 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2716 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2717 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2718 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2719 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2720 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2721 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2724 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2725 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2728 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2729 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2730 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2732 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2733 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2734 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2735 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2738 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
2739 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2740 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
2742 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2743 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
2744 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2745 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2746 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2747 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2748 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2749 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2750 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2751 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2752 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2755 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2757 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2759 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2760 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2761 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2763 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2764 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2766 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2769 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2771 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2773 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2774 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2776 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2778 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2779 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2781 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2782 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2784 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2785 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2786 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2788 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2789 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2790 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2791 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2792 effects of the memory clear).
2794 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2795 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2796 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2797 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2799 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2800 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2801 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2802 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2803 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2804 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2806 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2809 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2810 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2811 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2812 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2813 as large as several megabytes.
2815 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2816 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2819 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2820 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2821 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2822 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2823 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2824 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2825 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2827 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2828 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2829 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2830 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2832 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2833 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2834 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2837 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2838 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2839 They were already unimplemented.
2841 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2842 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2843 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2844 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2846 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2847 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2848 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2849 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2850 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2852 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2853 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2854 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2855 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2856 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2858 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2859 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2860 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2861 did not reflect that.
2863 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2864 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2865 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2866 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2867 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2868 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2869 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2872 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2873 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2874 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2875 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2877 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2878 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2879 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2880 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2882 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2883 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2886 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2887 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2890 Security related changes:
2892 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2893 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2894 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2895 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2896 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2898 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2899 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2900 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2901 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2904 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2906 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2907 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2909 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2910 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2911 before it started waiting
2912 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2913 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2914 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2915 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2917 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2918 library linked with pthread
2919 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2920 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2921 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2922 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2923 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2924 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2925 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2927 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2929 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2930 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2931 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2932 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2933 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2934 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2935 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2936 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2937 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2939 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2940 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2941 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2942 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2943 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2944 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2945 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2946 causes a segmentation fault
2947 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2949 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2950 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2952 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2954 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2955 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2956 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2958 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2959 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2961 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2962 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2963 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2964 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2965 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2966 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2967 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2968 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2970 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2971 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2972 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2974 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2976 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2978 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2979 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2980 cause transition penalty
2981 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2982 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2983 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2984 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2985 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2987 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2989 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2990 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2991 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2992 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2993 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2994 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2996 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2998 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2999 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3000 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3001 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3002 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3003 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3004 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3005 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3006 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3007 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3008 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3009 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3010 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3011 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3013 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3014 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3015 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3016 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3017 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3018 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3019 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3020 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3021 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3022 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3023 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3024 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3025 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3026 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3027 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3028 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3029 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3030 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3032 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3033 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3034 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3035 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3036 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3038 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3039 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3040 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3041 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3042 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3043 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3044 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3046 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3047 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3048 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3049 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3050 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3054 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3055 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3056 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3057 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3058 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3061 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3062 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3063 been included in previous releases.
3065 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3066 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3068 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3069 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3070 instead of “union wait”.
3072 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3073 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3074 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3075 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3076 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3077 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3078 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3080 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3083 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3084 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3087 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3088 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3089 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3090 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3091 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3094 Security related changes:
3096 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3097 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3098 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3100 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3101 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3102 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3103 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
3105 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3106 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3107 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3109 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3110 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3111 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3113 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3114 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3115 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3116 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3118 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3120 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3121 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3123 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3124 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3125 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3126 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3127 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3128 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3129 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3130 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3132 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3133 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3134 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3135 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3136 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3137 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3139 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3141 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3142 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3143 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3144 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3145 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3146 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3147 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3148 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3149 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3150 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3151 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3153 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3154 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3155 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3156 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3157 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3158 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3160 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3161 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3163 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3164 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3165 Romanian locale data
3166 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3168 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3169 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3171 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3172 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3173 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3174 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3176 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3178 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3179 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3180 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3181 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3182 when using RTLD_NEXT
3183 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3184 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3185 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3186 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3187 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3188 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3189 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3190 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3191 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3193 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3194 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3195 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3196 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3198 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3200 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3202 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3203 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3204 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3205 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3206 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3207 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3209 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3210 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3212 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3213 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3215 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3217 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3219 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3220 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3221 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3222 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3223 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3224 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3225 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3226 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3227 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3228 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3229 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3230 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3231 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3232 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3234 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3236 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3237 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3238 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3239 response to getaddrinfo
3240 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3241 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3242 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3243 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3244 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3245 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3247 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3248 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3249 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3251 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3252 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3253 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3254 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3256 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3257 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3258 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3260 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3261 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3262 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3263 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3264 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3265 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3266 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3267 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3269 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3270 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3271 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3273 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3274 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3275 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3276 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3277 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3278 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3279 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3280 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3281 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3282 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3283 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3284 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3285 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3287 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3288 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3289 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3290 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3292 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3293 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3295 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3296 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3297 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3298 AS not supporting AVX512
3299 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3301 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3302 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3304 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3305 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3306 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3307 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3308 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3310 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3311 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3313 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3314 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3315 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3316 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3317 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3318 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3319 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3320 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3321 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3323 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3324 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3325 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3326 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3327 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3328 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3329 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3330 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3331 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3332 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3333 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3334 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3335 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3337 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3338 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3339 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3340 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3341 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3343 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3344 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3346 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3347 "invalid" exceptions
3348 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3349 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3350 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3351 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3352 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3353 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3354 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3355 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3356 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
3360 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3361 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3362 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3363 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3364 89, 16061, and 18568.
3366 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3367 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3368 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3369 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3370 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3371 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3372 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3374 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3375 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3376 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3378 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3379 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3380 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3381 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3382 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3383 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3384 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3386 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3387 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3388 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3389 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3390 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
3391 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
3392 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3395 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3396 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3397 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3398 independent of the GNU C Library.
3400 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3401 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
3403 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3404 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3405 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3406 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3407 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3410 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3411 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
3413 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3414 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3415 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3416 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3417 defining their own copy.
3419 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3420 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3421 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3423 Security related changes:
3425 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3426 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3428 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3429 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3430 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3431 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3434 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3435 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3437 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3438 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3440 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3441 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
3442 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
3444 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3445 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3446 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3447 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3448 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3449 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3450 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3451 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3452 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3453 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3454 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3455 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3456 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3458 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3460 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3461 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3462 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3463 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3464 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3465 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3467 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3468 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3469 overflow/underflow errors
3470 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3472 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3473 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3474 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3475 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3476 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3477 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3479 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3480 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3481 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3482 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3483 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3484 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3485 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3486 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3487 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3489 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3491 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3492 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3493 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3495 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3496 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3497 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3498 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3499 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3501 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3502 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3504 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3505 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3506 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3507 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3508 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3509 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3510 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3511 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3513 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3514 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3515 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3516 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3517 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3519 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3520 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3522 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3523 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3524 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3525 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3526 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3528 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3529 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3530 (related to lock elision)
3531 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3532 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3533 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3534 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3536 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3537 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3538 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3539 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3540 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3541 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3542 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3543 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3544 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3545 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3546 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3547 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3548 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3549 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3550 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3551 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3552 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3553 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3554 contains a vector instruction exception.
3555 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3556 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3558 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3559 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3560 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3561 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3562 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3564 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3566 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3567 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3569 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3570 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3571 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3572 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3573 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3575 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3576 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3577 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3578 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3579 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3580 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3581 statically too large
3582 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3583 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3584 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3585 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3586 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3587 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3588 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3589 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3590 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3592 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3593 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3594 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3595 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3596 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3597 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3598 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3600 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3601 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3602 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3603 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3605 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3606 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3607 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3608 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3609 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3610 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3612 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3613 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3614 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3615 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3616 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3617 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3619 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3620 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3621 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3622 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3623 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3624 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3625 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3626 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3628 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3629 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3630 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3631 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3632 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3633 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3634 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3635 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3636 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3638 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3640 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3641 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3642 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3644 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3645 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3646 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3647 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3648 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3649 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3650 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3651 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3652 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3653 pthread_setaffinity_np
3654 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3655 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3656 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3657 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3658 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3660 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3661 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3662 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3663 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3664 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3665 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3666 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3668 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3669 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3670 for C99-based standards
3671 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3672 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3674 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3675 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3676 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3678 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3679 "inexact" exceptions
3680 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3682 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3683 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3684 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3685 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3687 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3688 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3689 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3690 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3691 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3692 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3693 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3694 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3695 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3696 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3698 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3699 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3700 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3701 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3703 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3704 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3705 error on 32-bit architectures
3706 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3707 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3708 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3709 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3710 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3711 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3712 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3713 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3714 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3716 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3718 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3719 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3720 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3721 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3723 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
3727 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3729 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
3730 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3731 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3732 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3733 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3734 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3735 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3736 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3737 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3738 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3739 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3740 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3741 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3742 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3743 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3744 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3745 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3746 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
3747 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3748 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
3750 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3751 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3753 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3754 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3755 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3756 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3757 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3758 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
3760 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3761 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3762 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3763 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3764 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3766 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3767 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3768 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3770 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3771 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3772 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3775 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3776 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3777 condition in some applications.
3779 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3780 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3782 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3783 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3784 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3785 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3786 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3788 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3789 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3790 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3791 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3793 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3794 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3795 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3797 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3798 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3800 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3801 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3802 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3804 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3805 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3806 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3810 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3812 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3813 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3814 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3815 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3816 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3817 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3818 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3819 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3820 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3821 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3824 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3825 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3826 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3827 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3830 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3831 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3832 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3833 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3834 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3835 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3837 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3839 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3840 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3841 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3843 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3844 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3845 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3846 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3847 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3848 effects being visible outside transactions.
3850 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3851 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3853 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3855 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3856 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3857 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3858 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3859 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3861 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3862 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3864 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3865 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3868 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3869 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3870 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3872 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3873 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3875 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3877 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3878 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3879 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3880 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3882 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3883 with newer versions of bison.
3885 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3886 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3887 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3888 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3889 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3890 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3891 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3892 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3893 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3894 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3895 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3896 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3897 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3899 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3900 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3901 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3902 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3903 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3907 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3909 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3910 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3911 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3912 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3913 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3914 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3915 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3916 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3917 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3918 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3919 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3920 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3921 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3922 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3923 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3925 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3926 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3927 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3928 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3929 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3930 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3931 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3932 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3933 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3934 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3936 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3937 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3938 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3939 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3940 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3942 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3944 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3945 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3947 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3948 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3949 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3950 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3951 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3952 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3954 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3957 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3958 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3959 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3960 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3961 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3962 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3963 test macros defined.
3965 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3967 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3968 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3969 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3970 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3971 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3972 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3975 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3976 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3977 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3978 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3981 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3982 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3983 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
3985 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3986 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3987 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3988 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
3990 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3991 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3992 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3993 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3994 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3995 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3996 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3999 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4000 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4001 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4002 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4003 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4004 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4005 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4006 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4007 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4009 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4010 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4011 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4012 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4013 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4014 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4016 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4017 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4018 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4019 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4023 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4025 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4026 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4027 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4028 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4029 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4030 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4031 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4032 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4033 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4034 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
4035 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4036 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4037 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4038 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4039 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
4040 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4041 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4042 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
4044 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4045 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4047 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4048 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4049 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
4050 extension which uses __block.
4052 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4053 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4054 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4055 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4056 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4058 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4059 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4060 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4061 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4064 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4065 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4066 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4067 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4068 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
4070 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4071 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4072 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4074 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4075 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4076 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4079 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4080 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4082 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
4083 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
4085 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4087 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4090 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
4092 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4094 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4095 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4096 for which the C library was built.
4098 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4099 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4100 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4101 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4102 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4103 in the following circumstances:
4105 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4107 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4108 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4110 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4111 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4113 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4114 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
4116 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4118 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4119 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4121 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
4123 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
4125 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
4127 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4128 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4129 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4130 disable some of those declarations.
4132 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
4133 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4134 that did nothing) has also been removed.
4136 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4137 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
4139 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4140 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4141 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4142 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4143 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4144 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4145 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4146 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4147 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4148 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4149 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4150 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4151 require recompilation.
4155 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4157 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
4158 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4159 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
4160 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4161 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4162 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4163 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4164 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4165 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4166 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4167 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4168 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4169 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4172 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4173 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4174 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4175 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4176 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4177 understands and accepts the risks.
4179 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4182 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4183 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
4185 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4186 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4187 destructor calls to glibc.
4189 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4192 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4193 non-x86 architectures.
4195 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4197 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4199 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4202 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4204 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4207 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4208 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4210 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4212 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4213 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4215 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4216 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4218 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4219 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4220 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4222 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4223 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4224 attributes of a process.
4226 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4227 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4228 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4229 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4232 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4233 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4235 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4239 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4241 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4242 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4243 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4244 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4245 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4246 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4247 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4248 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4249 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4250 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4251 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4252 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4253 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4254 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4255 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4257 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4259 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4260 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4262 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4263 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4265 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4267 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4268 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4270 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4272 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4273 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4274 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4276 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4277 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4279 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4280 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4282 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4283 can be used with is 2.6.16.
4285 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4286 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4288 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4289 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
4290 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4291 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
4293 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4294 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4296 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
4297 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
4300 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4301 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4302 information in --help and --version output.
4304 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4305 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4306 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4308 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4309 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4310 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4311 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4312 when the mode is enabled.
4314 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4315 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4316 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4317 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4318 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4319 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4320 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
4322 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4327 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4329 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4330 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4331 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4332 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4333 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4334 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4335 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4336 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4337 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4338 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4339 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4340 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4341 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4342 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4343 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4344 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4345 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4346 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4347 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4348 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4349 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4350 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4353 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4354 configuring glibc with:
4355 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
4356 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
4357 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4361 + define static_assert
4363 + do not declare gets
4365 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4367 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4368 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4369 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4372 + timespec_get added
4374 + uchar.h support added
4376 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4378 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4380 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
4382 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
4384 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4385 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4387 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4390 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4391 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4392 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4393 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4394 existing applications.
4396 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
4397 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4400 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4401 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4402 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4404 * New locales: mag_IN
4406 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4407 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4408 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4409 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4410 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
4412 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4414 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4417 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4419 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4420 without a previously built glibc.
4422 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4423 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4425 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4426 now supported for ARM processors.
4428 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4429 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4430 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4432 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
4434 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4435 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4436 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4437 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
4439 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4440 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4441 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4442 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4444 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4445 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4446 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4447 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4448 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4450 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4451 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4452 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4453 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
4457 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4459 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4460 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4461 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4462 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4463 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4464 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4465 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
4467 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4468 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4470 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4471 and support for initgroups lookups.
4472 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4474 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4475 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4477 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4478 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4480 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4481 on x86-32 and x86-64.
4482 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4484 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
4485 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4487 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4488 for x86-64 and x86-32.
4489 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4491 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4492 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4494 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4495 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4497 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4498 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4500 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4501 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4503 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4504 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4506 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4507 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4509 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
4511 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4512 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4514 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4515 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
4517 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
4521 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4523 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
4524 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
4525 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
4526 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4527 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4528 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4529 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4530 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4531 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4532 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4534 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4535 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4536 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
4537 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
4539 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
4540 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4541 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
4542 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4544 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
4545 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
4547 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
4548 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
4550 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
4552 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4553 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4555 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4556 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4557 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4558 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
4562 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4564 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4565 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4566 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4567 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4570 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
4572 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
4574 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4575 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
4576 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4580 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4582 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4583 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4584 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4585 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
4586 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4587 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4588 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
4589 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
4591 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
4593 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4595 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4597 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4598 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4599 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4601 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4602 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4603 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4604 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4605 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4607 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
4611 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4613 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4614 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4615 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4616 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4617 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4618 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4620 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4622 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4624 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
4625 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4627 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4628 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4630 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4632 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
4633 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
4634 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
4635 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4637 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
4638 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4640 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4642 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4644 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4645 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4647 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4648 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4650 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4651 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4653 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4654 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4655 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4656 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4657 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4658 necessity is every process again.
4659 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4661 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4662 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4664 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4665 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4667 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4668 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4669 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4671 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
4675 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4677 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4678 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4679 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4680 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4681 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4683 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
4684 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4686 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
4687 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4689 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
4690 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
4692 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4695 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
4696 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4698 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4699 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4701 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4702 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4704 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4705 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4707 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4708 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4709 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4711 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
4713 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
4714 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4716 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4717 and extend existing format specifiers.
4718 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4720 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4721 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4723 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4724 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4725 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4726 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4727 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4728 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4732 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4734 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
4735 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
4736 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
4737 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
4738 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4740 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
4741 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4743 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4744 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
4746 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4747 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4749 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4750 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4751 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4753 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4754 Implemented by Eric Blake.
4756 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
4758 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
4759 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4761 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4762 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4763 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4764 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4766 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4767 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4769 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4771 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4773 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4777 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4779 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4780 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4781 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4782 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4783 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4784 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4785 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4787 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4789 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4791 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4792 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4794 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4796 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4797 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4799 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4800 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4802 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4803 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4804 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4806 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4807 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4809 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4810 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4812 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4813 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4815 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4816 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4820 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4822 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4823 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4824 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4825 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4826 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4828 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4829 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4831 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4833 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4834 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4835 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4837 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4838 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4840 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4841 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4843 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4845 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4846 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4848 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4849 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4851 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4852 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4854 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4856 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4857 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4859 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4860 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4863 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4864 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4868 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4870 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4871 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4872 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4873 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4874 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4875 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4876 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4879 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4881 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4883 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4887 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4889 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4890 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4891 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4892 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4893 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4894 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4895 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4896 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4897 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4899 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4900 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4901 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4903 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4904 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4906 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4908 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4910 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4911 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4912 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4913 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4914 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4916 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4917 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4918 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4919 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4921 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4924 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4926 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4929 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4931 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4932 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4936 * More overflow detection functions.
4938 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4939 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4941 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4942 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4943 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4944 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4945 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4946 by Masahide Washizawa.
4948 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4949 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4951 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4952 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4953 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4954 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4956 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4957 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4959 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4961 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4962 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4963 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4965 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4966 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4968 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4969 for compatibility with some other systems.
4971 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4975 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4977 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4978 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4979 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4980 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4981 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4982 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4984 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4986 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4988 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
4992 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4994 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4995 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4996 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4997 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4999 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5003 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5004 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5006 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5007 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5008 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5010 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5011 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5013 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5015 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5017 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5018 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5021 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5022 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5023 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5025 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5026 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5028 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5029 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5030 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5031 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5033 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5034 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5035 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
5036 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5038 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5039 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5040 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5041 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5042 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
5046 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5047 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5049 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5050 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
5052 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
5053 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5055 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5056 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5058 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5061 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
5064 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5069 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5070 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5071 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5072 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5073 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5074 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5075 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5076 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5077 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5079 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5080 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5081 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5083 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
5085 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5086 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
5088 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5089 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5091 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
5093 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5094 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
5096 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5097 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5098 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5099 of weak definition in ld.so.
5101 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5102 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5104 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5105 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
5109 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5112 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5113 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
5115 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
5116 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
5118 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5119 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
5121 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
5122 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5123 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5125 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5126 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
5128 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
5129 implementation of regex.
5131 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5134 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5135 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
5137 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5138 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5139 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
5141 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
5142 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
5144 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5145 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5146 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
5148 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5149 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5151 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5152 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5155 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5159 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5160 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5162 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5163 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
5167 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5168 128-bit long double format.
5170 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5171 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
5173 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
5175 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5177 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5180 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5181 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
5183 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
5187 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
5188 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
5190 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5191 support Unicode 3.1.
5193 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5194 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
5196 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
5198 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
5199 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5200 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5202 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5203 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5205 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5206 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5208 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5212 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5213 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5214 in float, double, and long double format.
5216 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5217 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5218 128-bit long double format.
5220 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5221 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5222 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5223 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5225 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5226 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5227 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5229 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5230 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5232 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5233 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5235 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5236 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5237 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5239 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5240 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5242 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5243 of functions for Linux/x86.
5245 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5249 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5250 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5251 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5252 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5253 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5254 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5257 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5258 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5260 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5261 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5262 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5263 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5265 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5270 only lists the names of the supported locales
5274 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5275 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5279 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5280 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5281 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5282 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5283 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5285 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5287 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5289 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
5291 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5292 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5293 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
5295 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5296 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5298 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5299 changed from the default "C" locale.
5301 * The usual bug fixes.
5305 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5306 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5309 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5311 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
5313 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5314 obviously requires a database library being available.
5316 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5318 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
5320 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5321 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5323 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5325 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5326 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5329 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5330 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5331 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
5333 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
5334 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5336 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5337 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5338 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5340 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5341 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5342 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5343 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5345 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5346 structures for the wide character tables.
5348 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5350 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
5352 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5354 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5357 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5359 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5361 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5363 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5365 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5367 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5368 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5369 implemented for Linux.
5371 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5372 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5373 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5376 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5379 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
5393 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5395 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5397 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
5399 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5401 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
5403 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
5405 * Update timezone data files.
5407 * lots of charmaps corrections
5409 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
5414 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5415 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5416 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5417 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5418 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5419 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5421 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
5422 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5424 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
5427 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5428 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
5430 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
5432 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
5435 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
5437 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5438 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
5440 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5443 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
5444 functions from ISO C 9X.
5446 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5447 real valued functions.
5449 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
5451 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5453 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
5455 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
5457 * Optimized string functions have been added.
5459 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
5461 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5463 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5464 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5466 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5467 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5471 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
5473 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
5475 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
5477 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5479 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5481 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
5483 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5484 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
5487 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5488 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
5490 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
5492 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
5494 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5495 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5497 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
5499 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5502 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5503 latest draft standards.
5505 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5507 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5508 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5509 addseverity NEW: Unix98
5510 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
5511 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5512 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5513 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5514 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5515 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5516 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5517 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5518 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5519 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5520 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
5521 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5522 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5523 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
5524 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5525 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5526 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5528 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5529 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5530 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5531 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5532 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5539 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5540 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5541 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5542 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5543 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5545 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5546 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5547 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5548 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5549 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5550 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5554 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5555 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5561 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5562 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5563 clearerr_locked REMOVED
5564 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5566 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5567 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5568 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5578 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5579 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5581 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5582 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5587 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5588 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5591 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5592 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5596 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5597 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5599 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5600 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5601 endutxent NEW: Unix98
5603 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5604 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5608 fattach NEW: STREAMS
5609 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5613 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5614 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5615 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5616 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5617 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5619 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5620 ferror_locked REMOVED
5621 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5622 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5623 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5624 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5625 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5626 fflush_locked REMOVED
5630 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5631 fileno_locked REMOVED
5643 fputc_locked REMOVED
5644 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5645 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5650 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5654 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5656 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5657 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5661 getchar_locked REMOVED
5663 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5664 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5666 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
5667 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
5668 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5669 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5670 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5671 getutxent NEW: Unix98
5672 getutxid NEW: Unix98
5673 getutxline NEW: Unix98
5674 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5675 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5676 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5677 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5678 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5679 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5681 iconv_close NEW: iconv
5682 iconv_open NEW: iconv
5683 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5684 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5685 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5686 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5687 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5688 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5689 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5690 isastream NEW: STREAMS
5691 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
5692 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5693 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5694 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5695 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5696 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5697 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5698 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5699 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5700 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
5701 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5702 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5703 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5704 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5705 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5706 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5711 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5712 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5713 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5714 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5715 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5717 makecontext NEW: Unix98
5718 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5721 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5725 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5726 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5727 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5728 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5729 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
5730 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5731 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5732 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
5736 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
5738 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5739 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5742 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5743 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5744 profil_counter REMOVED
5745 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5746 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5747 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5748 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5750 putchar_locked REMOVED
5751 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5753 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5754 pututxline NEW: Unix98
5758 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5759 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5760 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5761 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5763 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5764 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5766 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5767 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5768 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5770 sendfile NEW: kernel
5771 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5772 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5773 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5775 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5776 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5777 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5778 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5779 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5780 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5781 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5782 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5783 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5787 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5788 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5789 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5790 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5791 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5792 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5793 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5794 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5795 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5796 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5797 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5798 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5799 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5803 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5804 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5806 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5807 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5808 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5809 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5810 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5811 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5813 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5814 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5815 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5816 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5817 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5818 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5819 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5821 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5822 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5823 write_profiling REMOVED
5824 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5825 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5826 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5827 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5828 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5829 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5830 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5831 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5832 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5833 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5834 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5835 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5836 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5837 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5838 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5839 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5850 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5852 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5854 * rewrite of cbrt function
5856 * update of timezone data
5870 * add atoll function
5872 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5874 * fix math functions
5878 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5880 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5882 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5883 the ELF dynamic loader.
5885 * support for parallel builds is improved
5889 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5890 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5893 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5894 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5895 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5896 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5897 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5898 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5899 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5900 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5901 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5902 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5903 files in the ELF format.
5905 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5906 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5908 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5909 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5910 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5911 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5912 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5913 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5914 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5915 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5916 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5917 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5918 about dynamically linked binaries.
5920 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5921 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5922 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5923 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5924 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5926 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5927 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5928 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5929 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5930 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5932 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5934 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5935 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5936 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5937 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5938 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5939 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5940 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5941 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5942 NSS services available.
5944 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5945 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5946 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5948 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5949 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5950 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5952 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5953 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5954 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5955 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5957 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5958 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5959 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5961 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5962 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5963 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5965 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5966 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5968 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5969 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5970 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5971 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5973 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5974 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5975 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5977 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5978 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5979 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5980 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5981 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5982 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
5983 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
5984 the header file <printf.h> for details.
5986 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5987 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5988 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5989 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5990 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5991 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5992 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
5994 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5995 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5996 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5997 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5998 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5999 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6001 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6002 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6004 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6005 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6006 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6008 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6010 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6011 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6012 their use is discouraged.
6014 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6015 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6017 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6018 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6020 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6021 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6023 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6026 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6027 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6028 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6029 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6030 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6032 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6033 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6034 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6035 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
6037 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6038 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6040 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6041 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6042 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6043 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6046 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6047 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6049 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6050 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6052 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
6053 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
6054 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6055 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
6057 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6059 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6060 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6061 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6063 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6064 for arithmetic and string handling.
6066 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
6067 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6068 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6069 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6071 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6072 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6073 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6074 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6075 programs already written to use it.)
6077 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6080 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6083 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6084 a given effective group ID.
6086 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6087 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6088 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6089 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6091 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6092 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
6093 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6094 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6095 doing the same thing.
6097 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6098 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6100 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
6101 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
6103 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6105 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6106 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6107 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6108 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
6109 `-ldb' to get these functions.
6111 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6112 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
6114 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
6115 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6116 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6119 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6121 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6122 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6125 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6126 and writing the utmp file.
6128 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6131 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6132 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6133 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6135 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6136 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6138 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6139 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6142 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6143 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6144 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6145 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6147 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6148 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6149 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6151 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6152 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6153 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6156 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6159 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6162 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6164 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6165 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6166 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
6170 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6172 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6173 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6175 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6176 want to put themselves in the background.
6178 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6179 run without an operating system.
6181 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6182 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6184 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6185 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6187 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6189 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6190 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6193 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6196 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6197 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6201 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6202 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6203 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6205 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6206 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6208 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6209 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6211 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6213 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6215 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6218 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6219 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6220 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6222 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6224 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6225 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6226 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6228 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6229 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6230 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6231 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6232 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6235 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6236 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6237 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6238 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6239 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6242 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6243 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6247 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6248 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6250 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6251 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6252 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6254 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6255 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6256 address of the last character written.
6258 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6259 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6261 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6262 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6264 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6265 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6266 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6267 you dereference this pointer.
6269 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6270 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6272 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6273 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6274 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6275 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6277 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6278 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6279 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6280 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6284 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6285 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6286 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6287 in Emacs or the `info' program.
6288 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
6290 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6292 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6294 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6295 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6297 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6298 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6300 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6301 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6303 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6304 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6305 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6306 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6307 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6309 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6310 to the error code in `errno'.
6312 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6313 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6314 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6317 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6318 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6319 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6321 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6322 uniquely-named temporary file.
6326 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6327 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6328 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6330 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6333 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6334 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6336 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6340 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6341 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6342 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6343 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6345 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6346 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6347 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6349 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6350 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6352 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6353 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6354 made itself into a shared library.
6356 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6357 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6359 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6360 with limited length.
6362 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6364 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6366 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6368 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6369 function for traversing a directory tree.
6371 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6372 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6373 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6374 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6376 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6377 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6379 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6381 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6382 things to your strings.
6384 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6386 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6387 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6388 supporting those systems.
6390 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6391 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6392 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6393 configuration files.
6395 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6396 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6398 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
6399 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6402 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6403 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6404 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6405 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6406 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6407 required storage is not available.
6409 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6410 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
6412 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6413 latest files released from Berkeley.
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