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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 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
19 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
21 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
23 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
24 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
25 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
26 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
28 Security related changes:
30 [Add security related changes here]
32 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
34 [The release manager will add the list generated by
35 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
42 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
43 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
44 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
46 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
47 to change argv[0] string.
49 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
50 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
51 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
52 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
53 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
54 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
55 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
56 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
57 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
59 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
60 information and library search path diagnostics.
62 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
63 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
64 larger than fit in an integer.
66 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
68 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
69 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
75 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
78 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
79 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
80 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
81 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
84 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
86 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
89 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
90 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
91 Instead, the default implementation is used.
93 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
94 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
95 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
98 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
99 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
100 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
102 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
103 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
104 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
105 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
106 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
107 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
109 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
110 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
111 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
112 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
113 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
114 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
117 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
119 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
120 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
121 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
122 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
123 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
124 perform any adjustments.
126 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
127 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
128 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
129 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
131 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
133 Security related changes:
135 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
136 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
137 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
138 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
139 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
141 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
142 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
143 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
145 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
146 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
148 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
149 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
151 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
153 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
154 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
155 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
156 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
158 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
159 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
160 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
161 "haswell" platform subdirectory
162 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
164 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
166 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
168 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
169 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
170 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
171 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
172 changing gnuc version
173 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
175 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
177 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
178 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
179 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
180 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
181 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
182 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
183 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
184 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
185 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
187 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
188 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
189 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
191 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
193 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
194 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
196 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
197 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
198 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
199 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
200 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
202 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
203 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
204 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
206 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
207 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
208 at the end of a memory mapping
209 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
210 by the caller to the kernel
211 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
212 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
213 declarations for __sigsetjmp
214 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
216 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
217 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
218 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
219 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
220 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
221 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
222 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
224 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
225 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
226 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
227 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
229 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
231 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
233 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
234 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
235 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
236 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
238 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
240 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
241 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
242 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
244 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
246 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
248 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
250 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
251 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
252 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
253 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
255 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
257 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
259 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
260 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
261 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
263 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
264 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
265 [27177] dynamic-link:
266 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
268 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
269 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
270 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
271 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
278 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
279 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
280 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
282 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
284 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
285 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
286 Three ABIs are supported:
292 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
293 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
295 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
296 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
298 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
299 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
300 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
303 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
304 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
305 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
307 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
308 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
309 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
311 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
312 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
313 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
314 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
317 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
318 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
319 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
320 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
321 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
322 NULL for an invalid signal number.
324 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
325 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
327 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
328 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
329 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
330 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
331 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
332 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
334 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
335 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
337 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
338 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
339 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
340 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
341 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
342 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
343 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
344 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
345 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
346 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
347 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
350 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
352 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
353 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
354 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
355 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
356 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
357 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
358 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
360 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
361 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
362 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
363 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
364 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
365 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
366 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
367 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
368 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
370 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
371 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
372 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
373 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
374 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
376 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
377 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
378 was not declared in any header file.
380 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
381 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
382 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
383 sigaction functions instead.
385 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
386 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
388 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
389 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
390 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
391 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
394 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
395 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
396 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
397 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
398 strerror or strerror_r instead.
400 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
401 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
402 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
403 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
405 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
406 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
407 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
408 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
409 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
410 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
411 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
413 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
414 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
415 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
416 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
417 flavor of secure RPC.)
419 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
420 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
421 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
422 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
423 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
424 object, to enable the hooks.
426 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
427 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
428 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
431 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
433 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
434 long double redirects.
436 Security related changes:
438 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
439 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
440 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
442 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
443 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
444 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
446 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
447 expanding ~user has been fixed.
449 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
450 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
451 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
454 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
456 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
457 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
458 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
459 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
460 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
461 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
462 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
463 filtee has constructor
464 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
465 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
466 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
467 character entities for infinity & pi
468 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
469 segfaults in applications
470 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
471 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
472 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
473 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
474 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
475 function with -mlong-double-64
476 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
478 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
480 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
481 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
482 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
483 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
484 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
485 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
487 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
488 dynamically loaded dsos
489 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
490 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
492 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
493 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
494 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
495 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
496 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
497 stale configuration forever
498 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
500 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
502 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
503 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
505 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
506 on 32 bit and old kernel
507 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
508 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
510 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
511 amount of sigset_t bytes
512 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
514 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
515 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
516 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
517 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
518 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
519 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
520 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
521 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
522 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
523 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
525 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
526 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
527 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
528 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
529 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
530 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
531 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
533 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
534 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
536 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
537 exiting detached thread
538 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
540 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
542 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
543 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
544 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
545 dependencies in audit mode
546 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
547 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
548 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
549 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
550 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
552 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
553 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
555 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
556 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
558 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
559 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
560 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
561 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
562 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
563 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
571 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
572 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
573 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
574 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
575 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
576 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
578 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
579 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
580 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
581 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
583 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
584 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
585 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
587 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
589 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
590 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
591 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
592 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
593 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
594 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
595 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
596 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
598 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
600 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
601 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
602 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
603 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
604 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
605 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
607 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
608 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
609 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
611 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
612 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
613 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
614 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
616 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
617 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
618 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
619 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
620 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
621 made this no longer practical.
623 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
624 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
625 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
626 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
629 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
630 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
631 with the current time, use the localtime function.
633 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
634 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
635 using clock_gettime instead.
637 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
638 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
639 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
640 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
641 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
643 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
644 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
645 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
646 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
648 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
649 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
650 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
651 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
652 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
653 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
655 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
656 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
657 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
658 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
661 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
662 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
663 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
665 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
668 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
669 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
670 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
671 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
672 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
674 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
675 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
676 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
677 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
678 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
679 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
680 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
681 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
683 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
684 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
686 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
687 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
688 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
689 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
690 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
691 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
693 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
695 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
696 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
697 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
699 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
700 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
701 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
703 Security related changes:
705 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
706 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
708 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
709 environment variable during program execution after a security
710 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
711 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
712 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
714 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
716 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
717 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
718 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
719 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
720 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
721 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
722 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
723 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
725 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
726 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
727 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
728 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
729 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
730 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
731 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
732 constructors/destructors is not fatal
733 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
734 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
736 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
738 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
739 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
740 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
741 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
742 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
743 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
744 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
746 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
748 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
749 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
750 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
751 (stringop-overflow error)
752 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
753 functions other can lead to crashes
754 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
755 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
757 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
758 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
759 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
760 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
761 still can fail with an error
762 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
763 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
764 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
765 initialized correctly
766 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
768 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
770 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
771 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
772 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
774 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
776 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
778 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
780 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
781 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
782 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
784 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
785 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
787 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
788 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
789 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
790 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
791 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
792 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
799 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
800 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
801 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
803 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
804 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
806 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
807 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
808 to the callback function.
810 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
812 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
813 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
816 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
818 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
819 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
820 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
821 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
822 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
824 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
825 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
826 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
827 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
828 link time reference, is gone.
830 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
831 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
832 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
833 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
834 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
835 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
836 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
837 the clock choice at initialization time).
839 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
840 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
841 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
843 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
845 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
846 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
847 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
848 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
849 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
850 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
851 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
852 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
853 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
855 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
856 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
857 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
858 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
861 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
862 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
864 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
865 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
867 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
868 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
870 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
873 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
874 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
875 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
877 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
878 header have been removed.
880 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
881 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
882 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
883 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
885 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
887 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
889 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
890 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
892 Security related changes:
894 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
895 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
896 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
897 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
898 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
899 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
900 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
902 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
903 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
904 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
906 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
908 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
909 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
910 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
911 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
912 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
913 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
914 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
915 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
916 invalid input drops valid char
917 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
918 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
919 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
920 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
921 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
923 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
924 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
925 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
926 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
928 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
929 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
930 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
931 for long double = double
932 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
934 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
935 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
936 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
938 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
939 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
941 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
942 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
943 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
944 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
945 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
946 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
947 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
948 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
949 not the default "nor"
950 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
951 false positives, change to modern flexible array
952 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
953 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
955 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
956 unnecessary librt dependencies
957 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
958 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
959 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
960 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
962 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
963 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
965 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
966 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
968 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
969 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
970 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
971 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
973 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
974 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
975 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
976 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
978 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
980 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
981 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
983 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
984 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
985 kernels and break testing
986 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
987 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
988 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
989 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
990 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
991 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
992 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
994 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
995 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
997 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
999 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1000 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1001 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1002 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1003 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1004 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1005 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1006 always implemented in the same library
1007 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1008 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1009 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1017 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1018 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1020 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1021 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1022 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1023 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1024 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1025 configured location.
1027 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
1029 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1030 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1032 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1033 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1034 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1035 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1036 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1037 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1038 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1039 process actually does not use HTM).
1041 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1042 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1043 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1044 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1045 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1048 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1049 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1050 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
1051 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
1052 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1054 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1055 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1057 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1058 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1060 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1061 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1062 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1063 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1064 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1065 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1066 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1068 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1069 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1070 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1072 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1074 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1075 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
1077 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1078 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1079 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1080 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1082 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1083 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1084 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1085 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1088 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1089 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1090 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1091 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1092 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1093 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1095 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1096 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1097 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1098 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1099 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1101 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1102 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1103 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1105 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1107 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1109 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1110 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1112 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1113 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1115 Security related changes:
1117 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1118 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1119 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1121 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1122 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1123 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1124 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1125 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1127 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1128 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1129 or command injection issues in applications.
1131 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1133 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1134 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1135 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1137 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1138 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1139 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1141 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1142 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1143 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1144 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1145 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1146 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1147 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1148 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1149 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1150 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1151 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1152 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1153 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1154 pointer argument is non-NULL
1155 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1156 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1157 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1158 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1159 multithreads call popen
1160 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1161 and pthread_create fails.
1162 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1163 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1165 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1166 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1167 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1169 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1171 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1173 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1174 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1176 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1177 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1178 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1179 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1180 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1181 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1182 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1184 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1185 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1186 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1188 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1189 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1190 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1191 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1193 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1195 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1196 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1197 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1198 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1200 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1202 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1203 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1204 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1206 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1207 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1208 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1209 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1210 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1211 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1213 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1214 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1215 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1216 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1217 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1218 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1219 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1220 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1221 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1222 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1223 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1224 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1225 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1226 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1228 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1229 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1230 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1231 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1232 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1234 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1235 nearest rounding mode
1236 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1237 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1238 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1239 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1240 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1241 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1242 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1243 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1244 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1246 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1247 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1249 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1250 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1251 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1252 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1254 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1256 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1258 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1260 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1261 answers will be rejected)
1262 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1269 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1270 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1271 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1272 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1273 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1274 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1275 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1276 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1277 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1278 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1279 archive or binary locales.
1281 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1282 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1283 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1284 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1285 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1286 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1287 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1288 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
1289 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1290 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1291 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1294 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1295 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1296 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1297 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1298 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1299 field) to indicate such support is required.
1301 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1302 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1303 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1305 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1306 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1308 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1309 fMxaddfNx functions.
1311 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1312 fMxsubfNx functions.
1314 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1315 fMxmulfNx functions.
1317 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1318 fMxdivfNx functions.
1320 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
1321 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
1322 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
1323 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1326 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
1327 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
1329 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1332 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1333 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1334 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1335 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1336 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1337 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1338 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1339 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1341 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1342 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1343 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1344 the fstatat64 function.
1346 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1347 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1348 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1349 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1350 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1351 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1352 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1353 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1354 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1356 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1357 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1358 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1359 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1360 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1361 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1362 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1363 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1364 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1365 results in a load failure now.
1367 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1368 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1371 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1372 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1374 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1375 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1377 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1379 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1380 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1382 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1384 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1386 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1388 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1389 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1390 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1392 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1393 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1394 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1395 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1396 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1397 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1399 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1400 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1401 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1402 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1403 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1404 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1407 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1408 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1409 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1410 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1411 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1412 further explanation.
1414 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1415 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1416 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
1418 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1420 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1421 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1422 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1424 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1425 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1426 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1427 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1429 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1430 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1431 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1432 for this function instead.
1434 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1435 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1436 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1438 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1439 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1440 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1441 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1443 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1444 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1445 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1446 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1447 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1449 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1450 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1451 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1452 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1453 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1454 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1457 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1458 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1459 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1462 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1463 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1464 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1466 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1467 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1468 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1469 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1470 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1471 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1473 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1474 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1475 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1476 behavior in a future release.
1478 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1480 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
1482 Security related changes:
1484 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1485 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1486 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1487 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
1489 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1490 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1492 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1493 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1496 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1497 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1498 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1500 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1502 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1503 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1504 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1505 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1506 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1507 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1508 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1509 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1510 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1512 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1513 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1514 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1515 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1516 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1518 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1520 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1521 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1522 scope with -O1 and higher
1523 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1524 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1525 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1526 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1527 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1528 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1529 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1530 horrible machine code)
1531 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1533 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1534 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1536 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1537 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1539 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1540 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1541 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1542 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1543 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1545 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1546 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1547 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1548 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1549 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1551 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1552 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1553 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1555 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1556 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1557 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1558 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1559 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1560 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1561 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1562 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1563 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1564 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1565 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1566 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1567 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1569 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1571 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1572 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1573 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1574 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1575 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1576 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1577 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1578 for Spanish with CLDR
1579 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1580 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1581 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1582 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1583 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1584 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1586 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1588 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1589 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1590 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1591 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1593 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1594 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1595 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1596 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1597 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1598 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1599 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1600 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1601 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1602 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1603 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1604 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1605 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1606 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1607 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1608 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1609 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1611 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1612 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1614 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1615 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1616 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1617 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1618 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1619 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1621 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1623 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1624 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1625 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1626 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1627 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1628 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1629 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1630 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1631 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1632 and libc build with -Os)
1633 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1634 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1635 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1636 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1637 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1638 that changes /etc/passwd
1639 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1641 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1642 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1643 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1645 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1646 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1647 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1648 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1649 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1651 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1652 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1654 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1655 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1656 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1657 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1659 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1660 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1661 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1662 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1664 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1666 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1668 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1670 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1672 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1673 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1674 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1675 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1676 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1677 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1678 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1679 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1681 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
1688 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1689 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
1690 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
1691 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1692 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1693 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1694 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
1695 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1696 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
1698 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
1699 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1702 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1704 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
1706 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1707 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1708 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1709 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1710 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1711 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1712 from a security and performance perspective.
1714 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1715 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1716 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1717 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1719 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
1720 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1721 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1722 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
1723 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1725 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
1726 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
1727 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1728 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1731 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1732 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1733 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
1735 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
1737 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1738 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1741 * The copy_file_range function was added.
1743 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1745 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1746 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1747 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1749 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1750 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1751 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1752 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1753 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1754 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1755 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1757 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1758 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1759 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1760 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1761 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1762 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1763 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1765 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1766 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1767 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1768 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1771 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1772 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1773 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1774 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1776 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1777 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1778 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1780 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1781 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1782 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1784 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1785 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1786 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1792 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1794 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1795 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1796 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1797 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1798 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1799 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1800 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1801 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1802 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1805 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1806 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1807 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1809 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1810 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1811 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1812 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1813 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1814 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1815 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1816 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1817 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1818 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1819 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1820 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1821 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1822 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1823 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1824 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1825 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1826 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1827 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1828 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1829 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1830 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1831 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1832 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1833 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1834 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1836 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1837 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1839 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1840 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1841 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1842 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1843 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1844 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1845 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1847 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1848 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1849 exp10l for these functions instead.
1851 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1852 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1853 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1855 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1856 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1859 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1860 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1861 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1862 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1864 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1865 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1867 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1868 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1870 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1873 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1875 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1876 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1877 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1880 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1881 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1882 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1883 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1884 use, but predates the bits convention.
1886 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1888 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1891 Security related changes:
1893 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1894 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1895 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1896 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1899 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1900 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1901 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1902 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1904 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1905 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1906 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1909 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1910 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1911 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1913 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1914 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1915 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1916 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1918 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1919 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1920 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1923 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1924 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1925 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1926 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1927 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1929 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1930 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1933 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1934 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1935 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1937 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1938 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1939 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1941 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1942 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1943 small, instead of NULL.
1945 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1947 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1948 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1949 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1951 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1952 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1953 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1955 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1956 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1957 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1958 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1959 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1960 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1961 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1962 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1963 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1965 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1966 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1967 width Latin characters
1968 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1969 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1970 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1972 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1973 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1975 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1976 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1977 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1978 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1979 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1981 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1982 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1983 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1984 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1985 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1986 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1987 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1988 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1989 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1990 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1992 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1993 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1994 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1995 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1996 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1997 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1998 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1999 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2001 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2002 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2004 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2005 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2007 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2008 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2009 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2010 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2011 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2012 __regcall calling convention
2013 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2014 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2015 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2016 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2017 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2018 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2019 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2020 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2021 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2022 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2023 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2024 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2025 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2027 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2029 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2031 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2032 consistency check failures
2033 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2034 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2035 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2036 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2038 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2040 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2041 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2042 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2043 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2044 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2045 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2046 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2047 on memory allocation failure
2048 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2049 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2051 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2053 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2054 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2055 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2056 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2057 instead of EAI_NODATA
2058 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2059 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2060 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2061 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2063 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2064 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2065 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2066 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2067 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2068 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2069 allocation in syscall loops)
2070 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2071 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2072 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2073 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2074 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2075 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2076 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2077 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2078 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2080 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2081 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2082 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2084 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2085 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2087 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2089 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2090 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2091 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2092 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2093 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2094 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2095 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2096 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2097 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2098 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2099 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2100 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2101 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2102 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2103 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2104 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2105 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2106 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2108 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2110 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2111 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2113 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2114 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2115 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
2116 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
2118 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2119 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2120 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2121 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2122 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2123 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2124 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2125 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2126 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2127 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2128 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2130 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2131 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2132 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2133 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2134 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2135 the svid compat wrapper
2136 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2137 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2138 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2139 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2140 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2141 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2143 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2144 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2146 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2147 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2148 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2149 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2150 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2151 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2153 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2154 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2155 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2156 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2158 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2159 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2161 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2162 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2163 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2164 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2165 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2166 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2167 inside the ASCII printable range
2168 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2170 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2171 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2172 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2174 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2175 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2177 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2178 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2179 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2181 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2182 networking interface
2183 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2184 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2185 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2186 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2187 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2188 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2189 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2190 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2191 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2193 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2194 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2195 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2196 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2197 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2198 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2199 same as for Croatian
2200 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2201 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2202 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2204 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2206 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2207 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2208 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2209 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2210 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2212 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2213 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2214 modified in case of success
2215 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2216 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2218 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2220 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2221 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2222 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2223 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2224 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2225 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2226 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2227 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2229 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2230 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2231 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2232 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2233 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2234 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2235 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2236 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2237 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2239 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2240 elision and tunables
2241 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2243 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2244 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2245 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2247 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2248 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2250 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2251 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2252 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2253 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2254 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2255 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2256 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2257 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2258 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2265 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2266 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2267 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2268 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2269 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2270 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2271 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2273 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2274 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
2275 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2276 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2277 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2278 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2279 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
2281 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2282 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2285 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
2287 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2288 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2289 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
2291 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2292 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2293 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2294 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2295 object are still limited to six search domains.
2297 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2298 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2299 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
2301 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2302 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
2304 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2305 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2306 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2307 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
2309 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2310 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2311 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2312 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
2314 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2315 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2316 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2317 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2319 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2320 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2321 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
2323 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
2324 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2325 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2326 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2328 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
2329 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2330 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2331 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2332 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2334 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2335 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2336 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2337 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2338 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2339 interfaces should be used instead.
2341 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2343 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2344 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2345 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2346 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2347 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2348 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2349 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2350 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2352 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2355 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
2356 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2357 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2358 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2360 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2361 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2364 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2365 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2366 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
2367 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2368 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2370 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2371 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2372 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2373 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2375 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2376 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2377 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2378 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2380 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2381 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
2383 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2384 exported by accident.
2386 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2387 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2388 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2390 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2391 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2392 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2393 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2395 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2397 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2399 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2402 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2403 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2405 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2406 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2408 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2409 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2410 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2411 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2412 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2413 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2414 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2415 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2417 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2418 synced with the kernel:
2420 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2421 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2423 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2424 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2425 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2427 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2428 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2430 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2432 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2433 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2436 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
2438 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2439 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
2441 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2442 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2443 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2444 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2445 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
2447 Security related changes:
2449 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
2450 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2452 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2453 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2455 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2456 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2459 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2460 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
2462 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2464 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2465 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2466 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2468 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2470 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2471 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2472 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2474 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2475 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2476 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2477 x86 and other generic code
2478 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2479 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2481 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2482 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2483 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2484 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2485 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2486 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2487 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2489 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2490 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2491 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2492 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2494 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2495 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2497 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2499 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2500 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2501 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2503 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2504 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2505 failures consistently
2506 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2507 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2508 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2509 frame-pointer on i386
2510 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2512 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2513 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2514 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2515 generic c code is used
2516 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2517 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2519 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2521 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2522 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2524 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2525 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2526 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2527 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2528 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2529 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2530 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2531 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2532 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2533 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2535 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2537 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2538 new posix_spawn implementation
2539 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2540 leads to lower CPU frequency
2541 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2542 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2543 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2544 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2545 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2546 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2547 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2548 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2549 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2550 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2551 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2552 not support gethostbyname4_r
2553 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2555 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2557 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2558 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2559 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2560 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2561 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2562 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2563 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2565 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2566 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2567 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2568 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2569 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2570 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2571 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2572 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2573 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2574 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2575 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2576 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2578 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2579 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2580 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2581 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2582 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2583 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2584 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2585 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2587 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2588 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2589 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2590 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2591 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2592 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2593 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2594 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2595 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2596 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2597 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2598 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2599 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2600 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2601 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2602 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2603 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2604 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2605 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2606 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2607 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2609 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2610 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2611 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2612 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2613 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2615 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2616 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2618 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2619 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2621 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2622 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2624 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2625 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2626 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2627 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2629 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2630 leading to relocation crash
2631 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2632 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2633 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2634 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2635 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2636 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2637 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2638 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2639 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2641 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2643 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2644 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2645 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2646 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2647 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2648 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2649 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2650 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2652 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2654 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2656 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2657 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2658 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2659 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2660 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2661 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2662 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2663 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2664 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2665 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2666 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2667 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2668 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2669 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2670 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2671 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2672 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2673 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2674 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2675 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2676 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2677 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2678 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2679 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2680 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2681 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2682 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2684 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2685 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2686 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2687 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2688 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
2693 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2694 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2695 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2698 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2699 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2700 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
2703 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2704 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2705 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2708 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2709 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2710 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2711 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2712 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2713 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2714 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2717 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2718 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2721 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2722 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2723 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2725 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2726 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2727 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2728 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2731 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
2732 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2733 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
2735 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2736 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
2737 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2738 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2739 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2740 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2741 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2742 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2743 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2744 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2745 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2748 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2750 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2752 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2753 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2754 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2756 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2757 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2759 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2762 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2764 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2766 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2767 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2769 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2771 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2772 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2774 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2775 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2777 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2778 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2779 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2781 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2782 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2783 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2784 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2785 effects of the memory clear).
2787 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2788 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2789 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2790 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2792 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2793 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2794 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2795 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2796 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2797 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2799 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2802 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2803 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2804 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2805 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2806 as large as several megabytes.
2808 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2809 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2812 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2813 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2814 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2815 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2816 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2817 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2818 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2820 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2821 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2822 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2823 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2825 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2826 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2827 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2830 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2831 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2832 They were already unimplemented.
2834 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2835 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2836 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2837 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2839 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2840 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2841 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2842 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2843 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2845 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2846 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2847 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2848 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2849 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2851 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2852 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2853 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2854 did not reflect that.
2856 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2857 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2858 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2859 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2860 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2861 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2862 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2865 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2866 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2867 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2868 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2870 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2871 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2872 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2873 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2875 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2876 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2879 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2880 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2883 Security related changes:
2885 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2886 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2887 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2888 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2889 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2891 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2892 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2893 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2894 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2897 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2899 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2900 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2902 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2903 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2904 before it started waiting
2905 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2906 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2907 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2908 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2910 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2911 library linked with pthread
2912 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2913 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2914 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2915 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2916 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2917 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2918 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2920 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2922 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2923 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2924 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2925 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2926 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2927 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2928 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2929 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2930 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2932 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2933 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2934 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2935 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2936 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2937 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2938 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2939 causes a segmentation fault
2940 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2942 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2943 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2945 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2947 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2948 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2949 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2951 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2952 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2954 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2955 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2956 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2957 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2958 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2959 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2960 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2961 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2963 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2964 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2965 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2967 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2969 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2971 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2972 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2973 cause transition penalty
2974 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2975 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2976 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2977 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2978 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2980 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2982 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2983 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2984 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2985 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2986 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2987 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2989 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2991 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2992 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2993 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2994 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2995 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2996 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2997 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2998 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2999 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3000 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3001 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3002 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3003 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3004 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3006 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3007 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3008 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3009 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3010 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3011 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3012 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3013 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3014 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3015 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3016 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3017 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3018 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3019 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3020 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3021 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3022 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3023 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3025 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3026 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3027 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3028 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3029 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3031 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3032 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3033 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3034 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3035 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3036 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3037 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3039 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3040 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3041 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3042 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3043 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3047 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3048 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3049 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3050 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3051 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3054 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3055 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3056 been included in previous releases.
3058 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3059 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3061 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3062 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3063 instead of “union wait”.
3065 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3066 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3067 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3068 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3069 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3070 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3071 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3073 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3076 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3077 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3080 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3081 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3082 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3083 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3084 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3087 Security related changes:
3089 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3090 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3091 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3093 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3094 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3095 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3096 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
3098 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3099 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3100 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3102 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3103 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3104 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3106 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3107 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3108 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3109 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3111 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3113 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3114 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3116 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3117 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3118 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3119 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3120 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3121 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3122 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3123 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3125 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3126 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3127 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3128 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3129 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3130 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3132 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3134 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3135 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3136 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3137 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3138 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3139 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3140 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3141 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3142 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3143 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3144 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3146 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3147 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3148 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3149 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3150 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3151 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3153 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3154 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3156 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3157 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3158 Romanian locale data
3159 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3161 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3162 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3164 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3165 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3166 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3167 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3169 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3171 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3172 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3173 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3174 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3175 when using RTLD_NEXT
3176 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3177 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3178 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3179 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3180 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3181 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3182 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3183 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3184 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3186 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3187 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3188 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3189 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3191 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3193 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3195 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3196 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3197 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3198 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3199 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3200 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3202 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3203 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3205 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3206 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3208 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3210 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3212 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3213 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3214 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3215 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3216 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3217 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3218 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3219 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3220 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3221 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3222 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3223 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3224 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3225 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3227 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3229 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3230 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3231 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3232 response to getaddrinfo
3233 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3234 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3235 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3236 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3237 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3238 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3240 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3241 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3242 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3244 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3245 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3246 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3247 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3249 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3250 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3251 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3253 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3254 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3255 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3256 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3257 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3258 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3259 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3260 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3262 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3263 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3264 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3266 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3267 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3268 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3269 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3270 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3271 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3272 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3273 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3274 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3275 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3276 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3277 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3278 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3280 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3281 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3282 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3283 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3285 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3286 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3288 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3289 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3290 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3291 AS not supporting AVX512
3292 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3294 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3295 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3297 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3298 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3299 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3300 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3301 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3303 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3304 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3306 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3307 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3308 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3309 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3310 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3311 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3312 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3313 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3314 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3316 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3317 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3318 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3319 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3320 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3321 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3322 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3323 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3324 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3325 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3326 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3327 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3328 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3330 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3331 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3332 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3333 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3334 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3336 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3337 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3339 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3340 "invalid" exceptions
3341 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3342 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3343 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3344 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3345 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3346 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3347 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3348 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3349 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
3353 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3354 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3355 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3356 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3357 89, 16061, and 18568.
3359 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3360 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3361 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3362 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3363 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3364 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3365 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3367 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3368 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3369 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3371 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3372 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3373 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3374 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3375 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3376 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3377 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3379 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3380 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3381 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3382 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3383 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
3384 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
3385 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3388 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3389 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3390 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3391 independent of the GNU C Library.
3393 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3394 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
3396 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3397 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3398 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3399 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3400 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3403 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3404 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
3406 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3407 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3408 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3409 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3410 defining their own copy.
3412 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3413 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3414 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3416 Security related changes:
3418 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3419 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3421 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3422 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3423 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3424 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3427 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3428 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3430 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3431 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3433 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3434 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
3435 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
3437 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3438 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3439 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3440 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3441 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3442 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3443 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3444 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3445 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3446 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3447 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3448 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3449 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3451 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3453 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3454 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3455 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3456 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3457 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3458 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3460 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3461 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3462 overflow/underflow errors
3463 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3465 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3466 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3467 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3468 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3469 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3470 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3472 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3473 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3474 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3475 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3476 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3477 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3478 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3479 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3480 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3482 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3484 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3485 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3486 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3488 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3489 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3490 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3491 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3492 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3494 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3495 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3497 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3498 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3499 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3500 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3501 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3502 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3503 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3504 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3506 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3507 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3508 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3509 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3510 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3512 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3513 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3515 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3516 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3517 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3518 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3519 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3521 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3522 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3523 (related to lock elision)
3524 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3525 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3526 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3527 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3529 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3530 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3531 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3532 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3533 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3534 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3535 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3536 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3537 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3538 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3539 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3540 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3541 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3542 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3543 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3544 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3545 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3546 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3547 contains a vector instruction exception.
3548 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3549 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3551 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3552 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3553 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3554 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3555 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3557 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3559 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3560 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3562 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3563 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3564 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3565 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3566 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3568 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3569 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3570 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3571 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3572 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3573 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3574 statically too large
3575 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3576 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3577 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3578 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3579 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3580 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3581 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3582 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3583 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3585 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3586 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3587 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3588 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3589 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3590 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3591 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3593 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3594 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3595 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3596 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3598 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3599 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3600 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3601 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3602 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3603 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3605 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3606 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3607 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3608 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3609 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3610 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3612 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3613 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3614 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3615 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3616 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3617 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3618 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3619 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3621 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3622 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3623 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3624 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3625 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3626 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3627 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3628 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3629 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3631 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3633 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3634 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3635 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3637 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3638 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3639 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3640 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3641 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3642 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3643 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3644 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3645 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3646 pthread_setaffinity_np
3647 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3648 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3649 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3650 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3651 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3653 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3654 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3655 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3656 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3657 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3658 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3659 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3661 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3662 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3663 for C99-based standards
3664 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3665 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3667 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3668 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3669 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3671 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3672 "inexact" exceptions
3673 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3675 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3676 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3677 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3678 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3680 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3681 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3682 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3683 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3684 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3685 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3686 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3687 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3688 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3689 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3691 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3692 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3693 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3694 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3696 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3697 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3698 error on 32-bit architectures
3699 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3700 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3701 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3702 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3703 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3704 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3705 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3706 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3707 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3709 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3711 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3712 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3713 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3714 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3716 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
3720 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3722 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
3723 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3724 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3725 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3726 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3727 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3728 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3729 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3730 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3731 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3732 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3733 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3734 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3735 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3736 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3737 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3738 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3739 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
3740 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3741 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
3743 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3744 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3746 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3747 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3748 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3749 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3750 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3751 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
3753 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3754 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3755 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3756 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3757 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3759 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3760 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3761 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3763 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3764 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3765 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3768 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3769 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3770 condition in some applications.
3772 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3773 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3775 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3776 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3777 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3778 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3779 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3781 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3782 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3783 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3784 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3786 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3787 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3788 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3790 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3791 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3793 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3794 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3795 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3797 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3798 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3799 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3803 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3805 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3806 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3807 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3808 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3809 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3810 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3811 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3812 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3813 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3814 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3817 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3818 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3819 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3820 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3823 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3824 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3825 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3826 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3827 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3828 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3830 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3832 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3833 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3834 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3836 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3837 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3838 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3839 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3840 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3841 effects being visible outside transactions.
3843 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3844 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3846 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3848 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3849 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3850 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3851 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3852 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3854 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3855 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3857 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3858 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3861 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3862 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3863 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3865 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3866 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3868 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3870 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3871 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3872 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3873 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3875 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3876 with newer versions of bison.
3878 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3879 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3880 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3881 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3882 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3883 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3884 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3885 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3886 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3887 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3888 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3889 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3890 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3892 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3893 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3894 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3895 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3896 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3900 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3902 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3903 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3904 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3905 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3906 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3907 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3908 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3909 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3910 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3911 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3912 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3913 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3914 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3915 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3916 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3918 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3919 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3920 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3921 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3922 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3923 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3924 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3925 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3926 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3927 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3929 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3930 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3931 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3932 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3933 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3935 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3937 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3938 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3940 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3941 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3942 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3943 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3944 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3945 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3947 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3950 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3951 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3952 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3953 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3954 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3955 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3956 test macros defined.
3958 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3960 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3961 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3962 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3963 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3964 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3965 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3968 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3969 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3970 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3971 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3974 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3975 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3976 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
3978 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3979 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3980 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3981 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
3983 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3984 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3985 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3986 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3987 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3988 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3989 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3992 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3993 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3994 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3995 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3996 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3997 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3998 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3999 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4000 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4002 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4003 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4004 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4005 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4006 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4007 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4009 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4010 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4011 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4012 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4016 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4018 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4019 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4020 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4021 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4022 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4023 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4024 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4025 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4026 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4027 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
4028 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4029 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4030 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4031 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4032 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
4033 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4034 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4035 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
4037 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4038 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4040 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4041 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4042 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
4043 extension which uses __block.
4045 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4046 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4047 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4048 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4049 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4051 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4052 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4053 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4054 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4057 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4058 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4059 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4060 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4061 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
4063 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4064 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4065 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4067 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4068 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4069 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4072 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4073 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4075 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
4076 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
4078 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4080 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4083 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
4085 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4087 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4088 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4089 for which the C library was built.
4091 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4092 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4093 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4094 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4095 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4096 in the following circumstances:
4098 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4100 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4101 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4103 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4104 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4106 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4107 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
4109 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4111 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4112 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4114 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
4116 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
4118 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
4120 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4121 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4122 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4123 disable some of those declarations.
4125 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
4126 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4127 that did nothing) has also been removed.
4129 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4130 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
4132 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4133 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4134 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4135 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4136 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4137 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4138 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4139 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4140 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4141 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4142 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4143 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4144 require recompilation.
4148 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4150 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
4151 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4152 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
4153 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4154 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4155 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4156 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4157 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4158 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4159 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4160 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4161 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4162 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4165 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4166 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4167 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4168 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4169 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4170 understands and accepts the risks.
4172 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4175 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4176 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
4178 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4179 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4180 destructor calls to glibc.
4182 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4185 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4186 non-x86 architectures.
4188 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4190 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4192 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4195 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4197 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4200 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4201 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4203 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4205 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4206 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4208 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4209 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4211 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4212 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4213 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4215 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4216 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4217 attributes of a process.
4219 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4220 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4221 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4222 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4225 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4226 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4228 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4232 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4234 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4235 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4236 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4237 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4238 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4239 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4240 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4241 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4242 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4243 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4244 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4245 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4246 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4247 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4248 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4250 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4252 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4253 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4255 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4256 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4258 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4260 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4261 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4263 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4265 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4266 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4267 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4269 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4270 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4272 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4273 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4275 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4276 can be used with is 2.6.16.
4278 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4279 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4281 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4282 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
4283 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4284 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
4286 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4287 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4289 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
4290 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
4293 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4294 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4295 information in --help and --version output.
4297 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4298 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4299 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4301 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4302 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4303 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4304 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4305 when the mode is enabled.
4307 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4308 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4309 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4310 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4311 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4312 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4313 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
4315 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4320 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4322 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4323 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4324 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4325 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4326 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4327 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4328 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4329 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4330 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4331 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4332 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4333 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4334 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4335 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4336 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4337 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4338 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4339 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4340 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4341 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4342 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4343 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4346 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4347 configuring glibc with:
4348 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
4349 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
4350 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4354 + define static_assert
4356 + do not declare gets
4358 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4360 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4361 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4362 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4365 + timespec_get added
4367 + uchar.h support added
4369 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4373 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
4375 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
4377 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4378 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4380 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4381 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4383 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4384 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4385 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4386 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4387 existing applications.
4389 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
4390 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4393 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4394 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4395 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4397 * New locales: mag_IN
4399 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4400 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4401 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4402 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4403 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
4405 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4407 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4410 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4412 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4413 without a previously built glibc.
4415 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4416 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4418 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4419 now supported for ARM processors.
4421 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4422 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4423 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4425 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
4427 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4428 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4429 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4430 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
4432 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4433 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4434 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4435 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4437 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4438 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4439 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4440 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4441 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4443 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4444 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4445 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4446 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
4450 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4452 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4453 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4454 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4455 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4456 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4457 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4458 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
4460 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4461 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4463 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4464 and support for initgroups lookups.
4465 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4467 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4468 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4470 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4471 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4473 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4474 on x86-32 and x86-64.
4475 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4477 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
4478 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4480 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4481 for x86-64 and x86-32.
4482 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4484 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4485 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4487 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4488 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4490 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4491 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4493 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4494 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4496 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4497 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4499 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4502 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
4504 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4505 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4507 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4508 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
4510 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
4514 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4516 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
4517 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
4518 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
4519 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4520 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4521 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4522 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4523 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4524 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4525 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4527 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4528 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4529 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
4530 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
4532 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
4533 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4534 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
4535 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4537 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
4538 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
4540 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
4541 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
4543 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
4545 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4546 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4548 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4549 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4550 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4551 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
4555 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4557 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4558 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4559 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4560 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4563 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
4565 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
4567 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4568 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
4569 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4573 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4575 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4576 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4577 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4578 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
4579 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4580 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4581 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
4582 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
4584 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
4586 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4588 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4590 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4591 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4592 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4594 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4595 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4596 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4597 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4598 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4600 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
4604 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4606 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4607 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4608 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4609 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4610 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4611 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4613 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4615 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4617 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
4618 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4620 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4621 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4623 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4625 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
4626 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
4627 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
4628 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4630 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
4631 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4633 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4635 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4637 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4638 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4640 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4641 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4643 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4644 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4646 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4647 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4648 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4649 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4650 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4651 necessity is every process again.
4652 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4654 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4655 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4657 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4658 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4660 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4661 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4662 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4664 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
4668 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4670 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4671 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4672 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4673 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4674 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4676 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
4677 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4679 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
4680 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4682 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
4683 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
4685 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4688 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
4689 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4691 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4692 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4694 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4695 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4697 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4698 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4700 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4701 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4702 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4704 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
4706 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
4707 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4709 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4710 and extend existing format specifiers.
4711 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4713 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4714 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4716 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4717 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4718 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4719 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4720 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4721 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4725 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4727 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
4728 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
4729 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
4730 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
4731 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4733 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
4734 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4736 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4737 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
4739 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4740 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4742 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4743 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4744 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4746 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4747 Implemented by Eric Blake.
4749 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
4751 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
4752 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4754 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4755 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4756 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4757 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4759 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4760 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4762 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4764 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4766 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4770 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4772 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4773 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4774 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4775 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4776 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4777 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4778 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4780 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4782 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4784 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4785 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4787 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4789 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4790 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4792 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4793 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4795 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4796 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4797 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4799 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4800 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4802 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4803 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4805 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4806 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4808 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4809 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4813 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4815 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4816 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4817 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4818 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4819 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4821 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4822 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4824 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4826 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4827 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4828 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4830 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4831 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4833 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4834 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4836 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4838 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4839 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4841 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4842 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4844 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4845 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4847 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4849 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4850 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4852 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4853 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4856 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4857 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4861 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4863 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4864 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4865 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4866 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4867 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4868 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4869 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4872 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4874 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4876 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4880 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4882 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4883 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4884 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4885 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4886 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4887 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4888 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4889 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4890 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4892 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4893 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4894 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4896 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4897 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4899 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4901 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4903 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4904 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4905 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4906 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4907 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4909 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4910 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4911 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4912 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4914 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4917 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4919 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4922 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4924 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4925 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4929 * More overflow detection functions.
4931 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4932 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4934 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4935 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4936 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4937 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4938 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4939 by Masahide Washizawa.
4941 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4942 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4944 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4945 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4946 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4947 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4949 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4950 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4952 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4954 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4955 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4956 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4958 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4959 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4961 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4962 for compatibility with some other systems.
4964 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4968 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4970 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4971 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4972 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4973 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4974 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4975 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4977 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4979 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4981 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
4985 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4987 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4988 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4989 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4990 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4992 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4996 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4997 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4999 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5000 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5001 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5003 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5004 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5006 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5008 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5010 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5011 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5014 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5015 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5016 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5018 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5019 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5021 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5022 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5023 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5024 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5026 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5027 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5028 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
5029 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5031 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5032 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5033 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5034 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5035 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
5039 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5040 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5042 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5043 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
5045 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
5046 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5048 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5049 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5051 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5054 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
5057 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5062 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5063 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5064 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5065 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5066 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5067 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5068 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5069 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5070 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5072 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5073 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5074 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5076 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
5078 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5079 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
5081 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5082 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5084 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
5086 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5087 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
5089 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5090 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5091 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5092 of weak definition in ld.so.
5094 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5095 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5097 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5098 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
5102 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5105 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5106 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
5108 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
5109 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
5111 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5112 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
5114 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
5115 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5116 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5118 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5119 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
5121 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
5122 implementation of regex.
5124 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5127 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5128 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
5130 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5131 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5132 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
5134 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
5135 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
5137 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5138 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5139 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
5141 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5142 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5144 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5145 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5148 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5152 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5153 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5155 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5156 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
5160 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5161 128-bit long double format.
5163 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5164 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
5166 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
5168 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5170 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5173 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5174 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
5176 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
5180 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
5181 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
5183 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5184 support Unicode 3.1.
5186 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5187 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
5189 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
5191 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
5192 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5193 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5195 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5196 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5198 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5199 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5201 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5205 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5206 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5207 in float, double, and long double format.
5209 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5210 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5211 128-bit long double format.
5213 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5214 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5215 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5216 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5218 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5219 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5220 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5222 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5223 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5225 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5226 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5228 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5229 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5230 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5232 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5233 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5235 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5236 of functions for Linux/x86.
5238 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5242 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5243 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5244 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5245 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5246 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5247 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5250 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5251 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5253 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5254 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5255 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5256 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5258 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5263 only lists the names of the supported locales
5267 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5268 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5272 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5273 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5274 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5275 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5276 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5278 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5280 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5282 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
5284 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5285 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5286 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
5288 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5289 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5291 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5292 changed from the default "C" locale.
5294 * The usual bug fixes.
5298 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5299 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5302 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5304 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
5306 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5307 obviously requires a database library being available.
5309 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5311 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
5313 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5314 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5316 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5318 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5319 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5322 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5323 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5324 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
5326 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
5327 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5329 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5330 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5331 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5333 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5334 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5335 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5336 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5338 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5339 structures for the wide character tables.
5341 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5343 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
5345 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5347 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5350 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5352 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5354 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5356 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5358 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5360 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5361 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5362 implemented for Linux.
5364 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5365 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5366 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5369 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5372 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
5386 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5388 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5390 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
5392 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5394 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
5396 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
5398 * Update timezone data files.
5400 * lots of charmaps corrections
5402 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
5407 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5408 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5409 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5410 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5411 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5412 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5414 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
5415 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5417 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
5420 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5421 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
5423 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
5425 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
5428 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
5430 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5431 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
5433 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5436 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
5437 functions from ISO C 9X.
5439 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5440 real valued functions.
5442 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
5444 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5446 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
5448 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
5450 * Optimized string functions have been added.
5452 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
5454 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5456 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5457 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5459 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5460 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5464 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
5466 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
5468 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
5470 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5472 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5474 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
5476 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5477 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
5480 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5481 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
5483 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
5485 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
5487 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5488 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5490 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
5492 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5495 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5496 latest draft standards.
5498 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5500 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5501 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5502 addseverity NEW: Unix98
5503 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
5504 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5505 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5506 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5507 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5508 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5509 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5510 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5511 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5512 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5513 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
5514 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5515 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5516 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
5517 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5518 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5519 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5521 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5522 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5523 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5524 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5525 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5532 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5533 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5534 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5535 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5536 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5538 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5539 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5540 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5541 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5542 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5543 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5547 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5548 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5554 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5555 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5556 clearerr_locked REMOVED
5557 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5559 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5560 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5561 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5571 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5572 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5574 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5575 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5580 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5581 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5584 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5585 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5589 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5590 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5592 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5593 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5594 endutxent NEW: Unix98
5596 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5597 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5601 fattach NEW: STREAMS
5602 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5606 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5607 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5608 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5609 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5610 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5612 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5613 ferror_locked REMOVED
5614 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5615 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5616 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5617 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5618 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5619 fflush_locked REMOVED
5623 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5624 fileno_locked REMOVED
5636 fputc_locked REMOVED
5637 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5638 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5643 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5647 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5649 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5650 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5654 getchar_locked REMOVED
5656 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5657 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5659 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
5660 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
5661 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5662 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5663 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5664 getutxent NEW: Unix98
5665 getutxid NEW: Unix98
5666 getutxline NEW: Unix98
5667 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5668 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5669 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5670 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5671 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5672 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5674 iconv_close NEW: iconv
5675 iconv_open NEW: iconv
5676 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5677 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5678 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5679 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5680 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5681 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5682 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5683 isastream NEW: STREAMS
5684 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
5685 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5686 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5687 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5688 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5689 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5690 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5691 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5692 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5693 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
5694 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5695 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5696 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5697 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5698 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5699 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5704 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5705 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5706 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5707 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5708 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5710 makecontext NEW: Unix98
5711 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5714 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5718 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5719 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5720 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5721 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5722 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
5723 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5724 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5725 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
5729 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
5731 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5732 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5735 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5736 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5737 profil_counter REMOVED
5738 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5739 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5740 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5741 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5743 putchar_locked REMOVED
5744 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5746 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5747 pututxline NEW: Unix98
5751 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5752 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5753 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5754 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5756 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5757 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5759 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5760 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5761 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5763 sendfile NEW: kernel
5764 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5765 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5766 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5768 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5769 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5770 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5771 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5772 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5773 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5774 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5775 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5776 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5780 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5781 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5782 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5783 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5784 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5785 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5786 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5787 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5788 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5789 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5790 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5791 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5792 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5796 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5797 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5799 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5800 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5801 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5802 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5803 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5804 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5806 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5807 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5808 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5809 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5810 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5811 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5812 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5814 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5815 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5816 write_profiling REMOVED
5817 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5818 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5819 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5820 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5821 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5822 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5823 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5824 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5825 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5826 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5827 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5828 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5829 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5830 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5831 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5832 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5843 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5845 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5847 * rewrite of cbrt function
5849 * update of timezone data
5863 * add atoll function
5865 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5867 * fix math functions
5871 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5873 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5875 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5876 the ELF dynamic loader.
5878 * support for parallel builds is improved
5882 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5883 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5886 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5887 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5888 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5889 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5890 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5891 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5892 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5893 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5894 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5895 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5896 files in the ELF format.
5898 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5899 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5901 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5902 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5903 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5904 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5905 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5906 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5907 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5908 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5909 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5910 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5911 about dynamically linked binaries.
5913 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5914 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5915 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5916 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5917 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5919 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5920 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5921 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5922 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5923 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5925 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5927 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5928 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5929 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5930 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5931 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5932 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5933 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5934 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5935 NSS services available.
5937 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5938 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5939 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5941 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5942 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5943 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5945 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5946 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5947 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5948 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5950 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5951 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5952 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5954 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5955 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5956 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5958 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5959 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5961 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5962 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5963 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5964 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5966 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5967 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5968 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5970 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5971 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5972 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5973 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5974 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5975 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
5976 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
5977 the header file <printf.h> for details.
5979 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5980 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5981 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5982 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5983 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5984 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5985 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
5987 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5988 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5989 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5990 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5991 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5992 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5994 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5995 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5997 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5998 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5999 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6001 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6003 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6004 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6005 their use is discouraged.
6007 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6008 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6010 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6011 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6013 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6014 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6016 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6019 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6020 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6021 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6022 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6023 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6025 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6026 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6027 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6028 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
6030 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6031 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6033 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6034 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6035 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6036 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6039 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6040 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6042 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6043 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6045 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
6046 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
6047 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6048 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
6050 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6052 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6053 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6054 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6056 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6057 for arithmetic and string handling.
6059 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
6060 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6061 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6062 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6064 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6065 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6066 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6067 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6068 programs already written to use it.)
6070 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6073 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6076 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6077 a given effective group ID.
6079 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6080 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6081 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6082 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6084 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6085 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
6086 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6087 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6088 doing the same thing.
6090 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6091 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6093 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
6094 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
6096 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6098 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6099 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6100 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6101 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
6102 `-ldb' to get these functions.
6104 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6105 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
6107 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
6108 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6109 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6112 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6114 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6115 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6118 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6119 and writing the utmp file.
6121 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6124 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6125 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6126 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6128 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6129 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6131 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6132 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6135 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6136 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6137 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6138 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6140 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6141 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6142 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6144 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6145 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6146 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6149 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6152 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6155 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6157 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6158 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6159 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
6163 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6165 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6166 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6168 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6169 want to put themselves in the background.
6171 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6172 run without an operating system.
6174 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6175 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6177 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6178 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6180 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6182 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6183 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6186 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6189 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6190 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6194 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6195 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6196 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6198 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6199 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6201 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6202 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6204 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6206 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6208 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6211 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6212 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6213 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6215 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6217 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6218 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6219 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6221 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6222 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6223 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6224 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6225 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6228 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6229 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6230 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6231 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6232 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6235 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6236 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6240 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6241 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6243 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6244 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6245 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6247 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6248 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6249 address of the last character written.
6251 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6252 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6254 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6255 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6257 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6258 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6259 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6260 you dereference this pointer.
6262 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6263 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6265 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6266 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6267 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6268 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6270 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6271 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6272 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6273 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6277 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6278 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6279 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6280 in Emacs or the `info' program.
6281 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
6283 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6285 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6287 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6288 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6290 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6291 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6293 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6294 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6296 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6297 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6298 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6299 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6300 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6302 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6303 to the error code in `errno'.
6305 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6306 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6307 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6310 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6311 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6312 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6314 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6315 uniquely-named temporary file.
6319 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6320 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6321 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6323 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6326 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6327 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6329 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6333 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6334 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6335 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6336 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6338 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6339 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6340 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6342 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6343 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6345 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6346 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6347 made itself into a shared library.
6349 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6350 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6352 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6353 with limited length.
6355 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6357 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6359 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6361 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6362 function for traversing a directory tree.
6364 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6365 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6366 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6367 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6369 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6370 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6372 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6374 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6375 things to your strings.
6377 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6379 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6380 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6381 supporting those systems.
6383 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6384 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6385 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6386 configuration files.
6388 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6389 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6391 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
6392 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6395 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6396 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6397 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6398 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6399 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6400 required storage is not available.
6402 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6403 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
6405 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6406 latest files released from Berkeley.
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