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12 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
13 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
14 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
16 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
17 to change argv[0] string.
19 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
20 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
21 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
22 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
23 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
24 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
25 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
26 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
27 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
29 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
30 information and library search path diagnostics.
32 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
33 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
34 larger than fit in an integer.
36 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
38 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
39 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
45 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
48 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
49 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
50 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
51 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
54 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
56 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
59 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
60 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
61 Instead, the default implementation is used.
63 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
64 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
65 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
68 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
69 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
70 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
72 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
73 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
74 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
75 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
76 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
77 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
79 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
80 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
81 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
82 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
83 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
84 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
87 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
89 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
90 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
91 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
92 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
93 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
94 perform any adjustments.
96 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
97 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
98 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
99 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
101 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
103 Security related changes:
105 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
106 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
107 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
108 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
109 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
111 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
112 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
113 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
115 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
116 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
118 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
119 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
121 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
123 [The release manager will add the list generated by
124 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
131 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
132 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
133 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
135 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
137 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
138 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
139 Three ABIs are supported:
145 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
146 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
148 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
149 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
151 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
152 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
153 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
156 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
157 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
158 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
160 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
161 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
162 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
164 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
165 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
166 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
167 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
170 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
171 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
172 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
173 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
174 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
175 NULL for an invalid signal number.
177 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
178 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
180 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
181 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
182 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
183 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
184 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
185 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
187 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
188 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
190 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
191 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
192 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
193 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
194 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
195 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
196 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
197 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
198 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
199 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
200 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
203 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
205 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
206 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
207 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
208 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
209 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
210 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
211 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
213 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
214 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
215 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
216 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
217 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
218 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
219 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
220 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
221 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
223 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
224 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
225 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
226 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
227 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
229 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
230 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
231 was not declared in any header file.
233 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
234 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
235 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
236 sigaction functions instead.
238 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
239 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
241 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
242 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
243 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
244 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
247 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
248 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
249 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
250 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
251 strerror or strerror_r instead.
253 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
254 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
255 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
256 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
258 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
259 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
260 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
261 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
262 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
263 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
264 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
266 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
267 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
268 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
269 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
270 flavor of secure RPC.)
272 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
273 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
274 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
275 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
276 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
277 object, to enable the hooks.
279 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
280 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
281 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
284 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
286 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
287 long double redirects.
289 Security related changes:
291 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
292 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
293 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
295 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
296 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
297 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
299 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
300 expanding ~user has been fixed.
302 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
303 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
304 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
307 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
309 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
310 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
311 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
312 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
313 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
314 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
315 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
316 filtee has constructor
317 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
318 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
319 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
320 character entities for infinity & pi
321 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
322 segfaults in applications
323 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
324 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
325 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
326 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
327 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
328 function with -mlong-double-64
329 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
331 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
333 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
334 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
335 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
336 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
337 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
338 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
340 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
341 dynamically loaded dsos
342 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
343 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
345 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
346 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
347 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
348 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
349 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
350 stale configuration forever
351 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
353 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
355 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
356 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
358 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
359 on 32 bit and old kernel
360 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
361 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
363 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
364 amount of sigset_t bytes
365 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
367 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
368 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
369 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
370 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
371 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
372 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
373 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
374 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
375 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
376 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
378 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
379 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
380 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
381 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
382 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
383 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
384 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
386 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
387 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
389 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
390 exiting detached thread
391 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
393 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
395 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
396 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
397 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
398 dependencies in audit mode
399 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
400 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
401 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
402 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
403 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
405 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
406 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
408 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
409 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
411 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
412 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
413 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
414 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
415 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
416 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
424 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
425 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
426 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
427 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
428 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
429 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
431 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
432 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
433 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
434 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
436 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
437 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
438 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
440 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
442 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
443 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
444 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
445 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
446 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
447 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
448 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
449 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
451 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
453 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
454 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
455 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
456 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
457 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
458 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
460 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
461 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
462 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
464 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
465 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
466 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
467 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
469 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
470 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
471 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
472 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
473 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
474 made this no longer practical.
476 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
477 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
478 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
479 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
482 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
483 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
484 with the current time, use the localtime function.
486 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
487 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
488 using clock_gettime instead.
490 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
491 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
492 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
493 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
494 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
496 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
497 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
498 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
499 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
501 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
502 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
503 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
504 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
505 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
506 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
508 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
509 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
510 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
511 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
514 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
515 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
516 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
518 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
521 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
522 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
523 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
524 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
525 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
527 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
528 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
529 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
530 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
531 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
532 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
533 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
534 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
536 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
537 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
539 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
540 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
541 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
542 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
543 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
544 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
546 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
548 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
549 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
550 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
552 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
553 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
554 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
556 Security related changes:
558 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
559 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
561 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
562 environment variable during program execution after a security
563 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
564 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
565 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
567 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
569 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
570 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
571 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
572 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
573 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
574 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
575 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
576 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
578 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
579 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
580 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
581 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
582 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
583 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
584 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
585 constructors/destructors is not fatal
586 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
587 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
589 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
591 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
592 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
593 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
594 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
595 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
596 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
597 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
599 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
601 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
602 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
603 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
604 (stringop-overflow error)
605 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
606 functions other can lead to crashes
607 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
608 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
610 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
611 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
612 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
613 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
614 still can fail with an error
615 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
616 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
617 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
618 initialized correctly
619 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
621 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
623 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
624 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
625 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
627 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
629 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
631 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
633 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
634 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
635 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
637 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
638 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
640 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
641 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
642 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
643 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
644 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
645 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
652 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
653 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
654 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
656 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
657 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
659 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
660 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
661 to the callback function.
663 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
665 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
666 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
669 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
671 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
672 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
673 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
674 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
675 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
677 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
678 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
679 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
680 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
681 link time reference, is gone.
683 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
684 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
685 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
686 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
687 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
688 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
689 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
690 the clock choice at initialization time).
692 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
693 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
694 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
696 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
698 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
699 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
700 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
701 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
702 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
703 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
704 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
705 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
706 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
708 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
709 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
710 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
711 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
714 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
715 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
717 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
718 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
720 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
721 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
723 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
726 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
727 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
728 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
730 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
731 header have been removed.
733 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
734 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
735 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
736 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
738 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
740 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
742 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
743 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
745 Security related changes:
747 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
748 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
749 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
750 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
751 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
752 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
753 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
755 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
756 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
757 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
759 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
761 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
762 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
763 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
764 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
765 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
766 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
767 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
768 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
769 invalid input drops valid char
770 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
771 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
772 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
773 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
774 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
776 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
777 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
778 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
779 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
781 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
782 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
783 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
784 for long double = double
785 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
787 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
788 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
789 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
791 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
792 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
794 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
795 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
796 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
797 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
798 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
799 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
800 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
801 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
802 not the default "nor"
803 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
804 false positives, change to modern flexible array
805 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
806 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
808 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
809 unnecessary librt dependencies
810 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
811 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
812 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
813 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
815 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
816 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
818 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
819 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
821 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
822 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
823 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
824 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
826 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
827 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
828 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
829 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
831 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
833 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
834 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
836 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
837 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
838 kernels and break testing
839 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
840 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
841 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
842 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
843 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
844 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
845 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
847 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
848 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
850 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
852 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
853 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
854 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
855 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
856 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
857 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
858 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
859 always implemented in the same library
860 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
861 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
862 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
870 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
871 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
873 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
874 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
875 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
876 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
877 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
880 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
882 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
883 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
885 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
886 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
887 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
888 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
889 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
890 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
891 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
892 process actually does not use HTM).
894 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
895 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
896 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
897 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
898 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
901 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
902 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
903 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
904 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
905 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
907 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
908 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
910 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
911 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
913 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
914 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
915 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
916 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
917 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
918 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
919 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
921 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
922 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
923 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
925 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
927 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
928 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
930 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
931 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
932 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
933 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
935 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
936 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
937 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
938 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
941 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
942 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
943 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
944 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
945 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
946 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
948 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
949 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
950 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
951 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
952 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
954 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
955 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
956 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
958 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
960 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
962 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
963 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
965 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
966 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
968 Security related changes:
970 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
971 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
972 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
974 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
975 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
976 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
977 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
980 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
981 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
982 or command injection issues in applications.
984 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
986 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
987 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
988 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
990 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
991 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
992 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
994 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
995 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
996 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
997 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
998 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
999 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1000 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1001 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1002 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1003 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1004 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1005 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1006 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1007 pointer argument is non-NULL
1008 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1009 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1010 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1011 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1012 multithreads call popen
1013 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1014 and pthread_create fails.
1015 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1016 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1018 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1019 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1020 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1022 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1024 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1026 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1027 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1029 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1030 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1031 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1032 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1033 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1034 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1035 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1037 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1038 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1039 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1041 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1042 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1043 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1044 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1046 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1048 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1049 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1050 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1051 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1053 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1055 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1056 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1057 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1059 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1060 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1061 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1062 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1063 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1064 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1066 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1067 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1068 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1069 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1070 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1071 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1072 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1073 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1074 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1075 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1076 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1077 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1078 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1079 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1081 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1082 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1083 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1084 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1085 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1087 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1088 nearest rounding mode
1089 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1090 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1091 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1092 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1093 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1094 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1095 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1096 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1097 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1099 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1100 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1102 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1103 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1104 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1105 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1107 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1109 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1111 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1113 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1114 answers will be rejected)
1115 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1122 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1123 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1124 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1125 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1126 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1127 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1128 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1129 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1130 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1131 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1132 archive or binary locales.
1134 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1135 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1136 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1137 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1138 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1139 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1140 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1141 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
1142 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1143 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1144 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1147 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1148 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1149 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1150 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1151 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1152 field) to indicate such support is required.
1154 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1155 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1156 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1158 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1159 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1161 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1162 fMxaddfNx functions.
1164 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1165 fMxsubfNx functions.
1167 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1168 fMxmulfNx functions.
1170 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1171 fMxdivfNx functions.
1173 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
1174 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
1175 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
1176 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1179 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
1180 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
1182 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1185 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1186 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1187 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1188 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1189 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1190 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1191 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1192 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1194 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1195 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1196 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1197 the fstatat64 function.
1199 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1200 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1201 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1202 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1203 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1204 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1205 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1206 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1207 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1209 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1210 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1211 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1212 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1213 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1214 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1215 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1216 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1217 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1218 results in a load failure now.
1220 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1221 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1224 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1225 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1227 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1228 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1230 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1232 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1233 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1235 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1237 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1239 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1241 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1242 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1243 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1245 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1246 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1247 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1248 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1249 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1250 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1252 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1253 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1254 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1255 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1256 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1257 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1260 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1261 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1262 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1263 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1264 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1265 further explanation.
1267 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1268 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1269 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
1271 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1273 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1274 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1275 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1277 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1278 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1279 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1280 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1282 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1283 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1284 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1285 for this function instead.
1287 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1288 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1289 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1291 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1292 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1293 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1294 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1296 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1297 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1298 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1299 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1300 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1302 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1303 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1304 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1305 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1306 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1307 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1310 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1311 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1312 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1315 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1316 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1317 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1319 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1320 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1321 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1322 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1323 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1324 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1326 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1327 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1328 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1329 behavior in a future release.
1331 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1333 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
1335 Security related changes:
1337 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1338 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1339 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1340 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
1342 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1343 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1345 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1346 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1349 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1350 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1351 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1353 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1355 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1356 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1357 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1358 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1359 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1360 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1361 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1362 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1363 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1365 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1366 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1367 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1368 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1369 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1371 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1373 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1374 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1375 scope with -O1 and higher
1376 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1377 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1378 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1379 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1380 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1381 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1382 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1383 horrible machine code)
1384 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1386 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1387 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1389 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1390 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1392 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1393 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1394 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1395 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1396 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1398 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1399 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1400 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1401 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1402 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1404 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1405 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1406 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1408 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1409 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1410 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1411 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1412 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1413 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1414 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1415 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1416 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1417 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1418 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1419 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1420 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1422 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1424 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1425 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1426 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1427 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1428 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1429 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1430 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1431 for Spanish with CLDR
1432 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1433 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1434 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1435 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1436 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1437 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1439 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1441 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1442 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1443 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1444 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1446 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1447 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1448 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1449 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1450 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1451 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1452 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1453 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1454 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1455 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1456 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1457 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1458 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1459 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1460 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1461 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1462 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1464 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1465 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1467 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1468 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1469 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1470 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1471 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1472 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1474 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1476 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1477 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1478 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1479 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1480 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1481 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1482 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1483 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1484 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1485 and libc build with -Os)
1486 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1487 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1488 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1489 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1490 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1491 that changes /etc/passwd
1492 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1494 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1495 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1496 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1498 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1499 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1500 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1501 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1502 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1504 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1505 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1507 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1508 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1509 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1510 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1512 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1513 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1514 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1515 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1517 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1519 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1521 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1523 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1525 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1526 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1527 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1528 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1529 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1530 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1531 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1532 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1534 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
1541 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1542 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
1543 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
1544 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1545 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1546 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1547 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
1548 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1549 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
1551 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
1552 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1555 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1557 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
1559 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1560 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1561 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1562 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1563 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1564 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1565 from a security and performance perspective.
1567 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1568 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1569 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1570 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1572 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
1573 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1574 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1575 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
1576 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1578 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
1579 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
1580 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1581 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1584 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1585 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1586 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
1588 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
1590 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1591 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1594 * The copy_file_range function was added.
1596 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1598 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1599 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1600 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1602 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1603 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1604 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1605 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1606 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1607 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1608 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1610 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1611 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1612 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1613 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1614 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1615 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1616 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1618 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1619 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1620 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1621 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1624 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1625 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1626 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1627 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1629 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1630 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1631 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1633 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1634 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1635 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1637 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1638 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1639 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1645 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1647 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1648 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1649 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1650 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1651 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1652 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1653 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1654 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1655 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1658 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1659 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1660 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1662 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1663 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1664 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1665 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1666 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1667 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1668 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1669 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1670 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1671 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1672 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1673 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1674 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1675 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1676 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1677 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1678 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1679 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1680 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1681 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1682 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1683 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1684 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1685 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1686 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1687 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1689 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1690 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1692 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1693 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1694 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1695 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1696 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1697 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1698 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1700 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1701 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1702 exp10l for these functions instead.
1704 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1705 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1706 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1708 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1709 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1712 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1713 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1714 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1715 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1717 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1718 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1720 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1721 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1723 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1726 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1728 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1729 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1730 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1733 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1734 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1735 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1736 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1737 use, but predates the bits convention.
1739 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1741 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1744 Security related changes:
1746 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1747 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1748 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1749 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1752 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1753 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1754 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1755 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1757 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1758 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1759 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1762 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1763 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1764 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1766 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1767 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1768 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1769 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1771 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1772 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1773 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1776 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1777 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1778 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1779 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1780 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1782 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1783 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1786 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1787 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1788 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1790 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1791 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1792 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1794 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1795 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1796 small, instead of NULL.
1798 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1800 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1801 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1802 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1804 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1805 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1806 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1808 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1809 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1810 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1811 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1812 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1813 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1814 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1815 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1816 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1818 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1819 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1820 width Latin characters
1821 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1822 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1823 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1825 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1826 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1828 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1829 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1830 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1831 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1832 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1834 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1835 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1836 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1837 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1838 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1839 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1840 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1841 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1842 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1843 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1845 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1846 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1847 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1848 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1849 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1850 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1851 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1852 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1854 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1855 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1857 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1858 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1860 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1861 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1862 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1863 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1864 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1865 __regcall calling convention
1866 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1867 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1868 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1869 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1870 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1871 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1872 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1873 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1874 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1875 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1876 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1877 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1878 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1880 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1882 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1884 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1885 consistency check failures
1886 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1887 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1888 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1889 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1891 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1893 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1894 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1895 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1896 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1897 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1898 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1899 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1900 on memory allocation failure
1901 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1902 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1904 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1906 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1907 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1908 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1909 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1910 instead of EAI_NODATA
1911 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1912 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1913 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1914 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1916 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1917 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1918 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1919 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1920 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1921 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1922 allocation in syscall loops)
1923 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1924 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1925 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1926 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1927 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1928 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1929 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1930 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1931 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1933 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1934 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1935 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1937 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1938 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1940 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1942 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1943 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1944 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1945 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1946 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1947 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1948 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1949 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1950 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1951 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1952 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1953 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1954 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1955 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1956 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1957 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1958 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1959 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1961 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1963 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1964 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1966 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1967 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1968 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1969 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1971 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1972 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1973 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1974 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1975 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1976 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1977 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1978 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1979 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1980 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1981 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1983 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1984 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1985 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1986 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1987 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1988 the svid compat wrapper
1989 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1990 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1991 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1992 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1993 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1994 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1996 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1997 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1999 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2000 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2001 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2002 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2003 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2004 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2006 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2007 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2008 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2009 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2011 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2012 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2014 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2015 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2016 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2017 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2018 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2019 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2020 inside the ASCII printable range
2021 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2023 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2024 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2025 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2027 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2028 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2030 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2031 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2032 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2034 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2035 networking interface
2036 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2037 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2038 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2039 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2040 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2041 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2042 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2043 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2044 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2046 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2047 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2048 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2049 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2050 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2051 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2052 same as for Croatian
2053 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2054 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2055 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2057 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2059 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2060 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2061 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2062 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2063 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2065 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2066 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2067 modified in case of success
2068 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2069 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2071 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2073 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2074 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2075 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2076 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2077 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2078 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2079 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2080 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2082 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2083 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2084 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2085 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2086 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2087 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2088 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2089 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2090 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2092 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2093 elision and tunables
2094 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2096 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2097 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2098 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2100 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2101 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2103 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2104 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2105 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2106 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2107 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2108 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2109 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2110 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2111 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2118 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2119 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2120 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2121 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2122 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2123 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2124 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2126 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2127 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
2128 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2129 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2130 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2131 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2132 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
2134 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2135 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2138 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
2140 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2141 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2142 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
2144 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2145 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2146 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2147 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2148 object are still limited to six search domains.
2150 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2151 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2152 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
2154 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2155 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
2157 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2158 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2159 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2160 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
2162 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2163 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2164 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2165 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
2167 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2168 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2169 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2170 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2172 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2173 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2174 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
2176 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
2177 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2178 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2179 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2181 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
2182 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2183 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2184 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2185 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2187 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2188 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2189 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2190 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2191 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2192 interfaces should be used instead.
2194 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2196 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2197 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2198 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2199 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2200 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2201 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2202 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2203 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2205 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2208 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
2209 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2210 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2211 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2213 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2214 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2217 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2218 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2219 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
2220 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2221 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2223 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2224 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2225 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2226 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2228 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2229 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2230 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2231 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2233 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2234 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
2236 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2237 exported by accident.
2239 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2240 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2241 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2243 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2244 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2245 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2246 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2248 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2250 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2252 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2255 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2256 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2258 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2259 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2261 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2262 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2263 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2264 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2265 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2266 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2267 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2268 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2270 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2271 synced with the kernel:
2273 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2274 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2276 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2277 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2278 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2280 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2281 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2283 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2285 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2286 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2289 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
2291 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2292 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
2294 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2295 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2296 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2297 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2298 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
2300 Security related changes:
2302 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
2303 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2305 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2306 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2308 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2309 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2312 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2313 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
2315 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2317 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2318 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2319 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2321 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2323 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2324 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2325 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2327 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2328 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2329 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2330 x86 and other generic code
2331 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2332 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2334 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2335 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2336 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2337 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2338 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2339 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2340 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2342 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2343 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2344 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2345 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2347 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2348 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2350 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2352 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2353 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2354 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2356 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2357 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2358 failures consistently
2359 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2360 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2361 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2362 frame-pointer on i386
2363 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2365 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2366 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2367 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2368 generic c code is used
2369 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2370 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2372 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2374 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2375 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2377 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2378 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2379 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2380 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2381 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2382 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2383 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2384 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2385 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2386 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2388 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2390 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2391 new posix_spawn implementation
2392 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2393 leads to lower CPU frequency
2394 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2395 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2396 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2397 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2398 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2399 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2400 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2401 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2402 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2403 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2404 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2405 not support gethostbyname4_r
2406 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2408 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2410 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2411 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2412 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2413 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2414 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2415 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2416 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2418 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2419 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2420 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2421 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2422 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2423 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2424 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2425 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2426 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2427 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2428 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2429 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2431 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2432 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2433 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2434 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2435 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2436 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2437 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2438 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2440 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2441 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2442 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2443 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2444 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2445 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2446 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2447 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2448 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2449 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2450 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2451 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2452 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2453 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2454 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2455 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2456 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2457 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2458 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2459 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2460 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2462 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2463 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2464 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2465 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2466 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2468 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2469 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2471 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2472 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2474 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2475 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2477 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2478 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2479 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2480 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2482 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2483 leading to relocation crash
2484 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2485 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2486 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2487 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2488 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2489 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2490 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2491 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2492 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2494 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2496 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2497 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2498 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2499 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2500 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2501 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2502 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2503 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2505 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2507 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2509 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2510 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2511 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2512 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2513 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2514 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2515 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2516 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2517 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2518 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2519 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2520 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2521 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2522 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2523 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2524 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2525 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2526 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2527 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2528 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2529 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2530 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2531 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2532 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2533 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2534 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2535 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2537 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2538 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2539 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2540 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2541 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
2546 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2547 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2548 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2551 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2552 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2553 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
2556 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2557 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2558 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2561 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2562 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2563 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2564 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2565 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2566 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2567 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2570 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2571 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2574 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2575 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2576 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2578 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2579 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2580 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2581 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2584 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
2585 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2586 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
2588 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2589 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
2590 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2591 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2592 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2593 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2594 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2595 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2596 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2597 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2598 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2601 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2603 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2605 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2606 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2607 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2609 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2610 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2612 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2615 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2617 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2619 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2620 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2622 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2624 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2625 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2627 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2628 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2630 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2631 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2632 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2634 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2635 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2636 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2637 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2638 effects of the memory clear).
2640 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2641 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2642 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2643 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2645 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2646 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2647 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2648 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2649 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2650 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2652 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2655 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2656 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2657 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2658 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2659 as large as several megabytes.
2661 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2662 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2665 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2666 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2667 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2668 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2669 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2670 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2671 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2673 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2674 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2675 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2676 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2678 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2679 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2680 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2683 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2684 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2685 They were already unimplemented.
2687 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2688 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2689 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2690 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2692 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2693 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2694 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2695 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2696 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2698 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2699 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2700 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2701 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2702 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2704 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2705 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2706 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2707 did not reflect that.
2709 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2710 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2711 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2712 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2713 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2714 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2715 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2718 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2719 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2720 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2721 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2723 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2724 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2725 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2726 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2728 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2729 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2732 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2733 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2736 Security related changes:
2738 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2739 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2740 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2741 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2742 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2744 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2745 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2746 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2747 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2750 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2752 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2753 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2755 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2756 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2757 before it started waiting
2758 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2759 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2760 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2761 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2763 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2764 library linked with pthread
2765 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2766 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2767 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2768 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2769 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2770 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2771 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2773 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2775 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2776 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2777 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2778 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2779 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2780 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2781 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2782 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2783 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2785 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2786 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2787 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2788 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2789 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2790 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2791 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2792 causes a segmentation fault
2793 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2795 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2796 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2798 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2800 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2801 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2802 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2804 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2805 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2807 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2808 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2809 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2810 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2811 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2812 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2813 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2814 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2816 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2817 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2818 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2820 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2822 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2824 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2825 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2826 cause transition penalty
2827 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2828 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2829 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2830 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2831 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2833 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2835 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2836 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2837 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2838 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2839 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2840 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2842 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2844 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2845 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2846 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2847 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2848 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2849 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2850 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2851 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2852 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2853 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2854 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2855 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2856 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2857 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2859 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2860 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2861 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2862 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2863 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2864 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2865 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2866 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2867 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2868 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2869 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2870 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2871 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2872 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2873 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2874 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2875 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2876 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2878 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2879 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2880 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2881 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2882 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2884 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2885 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2886 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2887 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2888 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2889 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2890 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2892 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2893 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2894 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2895 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2896 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2900 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2901 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2902 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2903 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2904 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2907 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2908 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2909 been included in previous releases.
2911 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2912 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2914 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2915 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2916 instead of “union wait”.
2918 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2919 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2920 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2921 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2922 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2923 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2924 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2926 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2929 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2930 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2933 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2934 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2935 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2936 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2937 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2940 Security related changes:
2942 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2943 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2944 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2946 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2947 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2948 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2949 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
2951 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2952 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2953 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2955 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2956 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2957 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2959 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2960 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2961 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2962 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2964 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2966 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2967 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2969 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2970 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2971 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2972 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2973 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2974 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2975 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2976 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2978 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2979 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2980 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2981 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2982 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2983 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2985 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2987 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2988 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2989 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2990 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2991 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2992 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2993 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2994 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2995 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2996 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2997 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2999 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3000 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3001 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3002 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3003 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3004 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3006 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3007 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3009 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3010 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3011 Romanian locale data
3012 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3014 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3015 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3017 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3018 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3019 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3020 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3022 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3024 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3025 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3026 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3027 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3028 when using RTLD_NEXT
3029 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3030 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3031 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3032 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3033 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3034 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3035 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3036 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3037 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3039 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3040 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3041 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3042 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3044 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3046 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3048 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3049 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3050 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3051 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3052 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3053 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3055 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3056 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3058 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3059 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3061 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3063 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3065 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3066 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3067 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3068 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3069 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3070 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3071 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3072 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3073 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3074 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3075 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3076 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3077 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3078 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3080 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3082 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3083 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3084 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3085 response to getaddrinfo
3086 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3087 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3088 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3089 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3090 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3091 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3093 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3094 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3095 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3097 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3098 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3099 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3100 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3102 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3103 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3104 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3106 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3107 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3108 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3109 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3110 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3111 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3112 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3113 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3115 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3116 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3117 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3119 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3120 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3121 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3122 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3123 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3124 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3125 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3126 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3127 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3128 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3129 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3130 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3131 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3133 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3134 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3135 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3136 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3138 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3139 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3141 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3142 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3143 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3144 AS not supporting AVX512
3145 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3147 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3148 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3150 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3151 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3152 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3153 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3154 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3156 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3157 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3159 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3160 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3161 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3162 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3163 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3164 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3165 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3166 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3167 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3169 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3170 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3171 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3172 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3173 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3174 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3175 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3176 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3177 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3178 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3179 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3180 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3181 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3183 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3184 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3185 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3186 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3187 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3189 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3190 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3192 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3193 "invalid" exceptions
3194 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3195 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3196 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3197 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3198 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3199 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3200 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3201 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3202 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
3206 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3207 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3208 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3209 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3210 89, 16061, and 18568.
3212 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3213 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3214 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3215 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3216 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3217 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3218 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3220 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3221 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3222 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3224 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3225 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3226 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3227 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3228 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3229 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3230 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3232 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3233 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3234 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3235 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3236 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
3237 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
3238 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3241 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3242 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3243 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3244 independent of the GNU C Library.
3246 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3247 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
3249 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3250 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3251 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3252 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3253 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3256 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3257 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
3259 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3260 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3261 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3262 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3263 defining their own copy.
3265 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3266 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3267 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3269 Security related changes:
3271 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3272 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3274 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3275 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3276 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3277 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3280 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3281 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3283 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3284 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3286 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3287 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
3288 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
3290 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3291 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3292 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3293 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3294 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3295 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3296 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3297 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3298 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3299 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3300 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3301 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3302 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3304 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3306 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3307 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3308 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3309 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3310 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3311 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3313 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3314 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3315 overflow/underflow errors
3316 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3318 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3319 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3320 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3321 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3322 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3323 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3325 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3326 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3327 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3328 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3329 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3330 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3331 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3332 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3333 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3335 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3337 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3338 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3339 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3341 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3342 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3343 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3344 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3345 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3347 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3348 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3350 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3351 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3352 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3353 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3354 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3355 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3356 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3357 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3359 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3360 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3361 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3362 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3363 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3365 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3366 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3368 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3369 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3370 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3371 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3372 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3374 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3375 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3376 (related to lock elision)
3377 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3378 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3379 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3380 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3382 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3383 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3384 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3385 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3386 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3387 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3388 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3389 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3390 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3391 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3392 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3393 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3394 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3395 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3396 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3397 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3398 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3399 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3400 contains a vector instruction exception.
3401 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3402 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3404 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3405 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3406 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3407 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3408 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3410 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3412 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3413 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3415 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3416 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3417 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3418 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3419 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3421 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3422 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3423 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3424 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3425 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3426 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3427 statically too large
3428 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3429 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3430 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3431 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3432 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3433 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3434 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3435 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3436 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3438 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3439 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3440 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3441 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3442 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3443 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3444 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3446 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3447 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3448 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3449 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3451 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3452 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3453 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3454 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3455 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3456 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3458 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3459 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3460 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3461 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3462 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3463 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3465 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3466 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3467 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3468 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3469 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3470 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3471 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3472 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3474 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3475 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3476 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3477 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3478 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3479 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3480 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3481 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3482 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3484 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3486 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3487 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3488 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3490 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3491 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3492 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3493 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3494 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3495 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3496 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3497 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3498 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3499 pthread_setaffinity_np
3500 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3501 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3502 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3503 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3504 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3506 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3507 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3508 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3509 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3510 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3511 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3512 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3514 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3515 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3516 for C99-based standards
3517 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3518 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3520 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3521 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3522 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3524 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3525 "inexact" exceptions
3526 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3528 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3529 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3530 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3531 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3533 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3534 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3535 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3536 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3537 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3538 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3539 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3540 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3541 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3542 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3544 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3545 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3546 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3547 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3549 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3550 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3551 error on 32-bit architectures
3552 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3553 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3554 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3555 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3556 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3557 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3558 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3559 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3560 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3562 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3564 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3565 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3566 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3567 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3569 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
3573 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3575 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
3576 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3577 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3578 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3579 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3580 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3581 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3582 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3583 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3584 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3585 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3586 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3587 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3588 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3589 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3590 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3591 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3592 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
3593 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3594 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
3596 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3597 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3599 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3600 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3601 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3602 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3603 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3604 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
3606 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3607 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3608 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3609 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3610 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3612 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3613 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3614 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3616 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3617 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3618 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3621 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3622 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3623 condition in some applications.
3625 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3626 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3628 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3629 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3630 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3631 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3632 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3634 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3635 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3636 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3637 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3639 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3640 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3641 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3643 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3644 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3646 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3647 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3648 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3650 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3651 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3652 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3656 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3658 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3659 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3660 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3661 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3662 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3663 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3664 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3665 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3666 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3667 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3670 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3671 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3672 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3673 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3676 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3677 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3678 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3679 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3680 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3681 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3683 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3685 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3686 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3687 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3689 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3690 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3691 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3692 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3693 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3694 effects being visible outside transactions.
3696 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3697 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3699 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3701 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3702 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3703 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3704 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3705 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3707 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3708 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3710 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3711 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3714 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3715 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3716 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3718 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3719 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3721 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3723 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3724 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3725 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3726 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3728 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3729 with newer versions of bison.
3731 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3732 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3733 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3734 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3735 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3736 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3737 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3738 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3739 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3740 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3741 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3742 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3743 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3745 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3746 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3747 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3748 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3749 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3753 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3755 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3756 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3757 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3758 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3759 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3760 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3761 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3762 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3763 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3764 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3765 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3766 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3767 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3768 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3769 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3771 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3772 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3773 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3774 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3775 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3776 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3777 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3778 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3779 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3780 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3782 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3783 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3784 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3785 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3786 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3788 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3790 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3791 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3793 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3794 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3795 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3796 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3797 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3798 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3800 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3803 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3804 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3805 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3806 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3807 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3808 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3809 test macros defined.
3811 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3813 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3814 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3815 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3816 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3817 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3818 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3821 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3822 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3823 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3824 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3827 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3828 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3829 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
3831 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3832 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3833 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3834 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
3836 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3837 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3838 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3839 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3840 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3841 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3842 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3845 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3846 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3847 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3848 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3849 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3850 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3851 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3852 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3853 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
3855 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3856 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3857 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3858 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3859 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
3860 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
3862 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3863 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3864 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3865 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
3869 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3871 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3872 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3873 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3874 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3875 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3876 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3877 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3878 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3879 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3880 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
3881 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3882 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3883 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3884 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3885 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
3886 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3887 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3888 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
3890 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3891 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3893 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3894 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3895 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
3896 extension which uses __block.
3898 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3899 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3900 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3901 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3902 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3904 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3905 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3906 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3907 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3910 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3911 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3912 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3913 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3914 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
3916 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3917 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3918 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3920 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3921 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3922 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3925 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3926 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3928 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
3929 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
3931 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3933 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3936 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
3938 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3940 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3941 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3942 for which the C library was built.
3944 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3945 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3946 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3947 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3948 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3949 in the following circumstances:
3951 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3953 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3954 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3956 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3957 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3959 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3960 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
3962 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3964 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3965 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3967 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
3969 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
3971 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
3973 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3974 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3975 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3976 disable some of those declarations.
3978 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
3979 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3980 that did nothing) has also been removed.
3982 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3983 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
3985 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3986 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3987 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3988 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3989 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3990 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3991 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3992 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3993 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3994 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3995 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3996 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3997 require recompilation.
4001 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4003 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
4004 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4005 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
4006 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4007 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4008 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4009 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4010 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4011 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4012 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4013 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4014 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4015 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4018 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4019 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4020 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4021 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4022 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4023 understands and accepts the risks.
4025 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4028 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4029 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
4031 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4032 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4033 destructor calls to glibc.
4035 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4038 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4039 non-x86 architectures.
4041 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4043 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4045 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4048 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4050 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4053 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4054 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4056 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4058 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4059 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4061 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4062 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4064 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4065 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4066 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4068 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4069 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4070 attributes of a process.
4072 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4073 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4074 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4075 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4078 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4079 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4081 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4085 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4087 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4088 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4089 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4090 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4091 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4092 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4093 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4094 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4095 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4096 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4097 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4098 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4099 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4100 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4101 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4103 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4105 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4106 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4108 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4109 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4111 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4113 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4114 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4116 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4118 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4119 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4120 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4122 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4123 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4125 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4126 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4128 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4129 can be used with is 2.6.16.
4131 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4132 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4134 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4135 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
4136 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4137 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
4139 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4140 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4142 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
4143 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
4146 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4147 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4148 information in --help and --version output.
4150 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4151 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4152 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4154 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4155 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4156 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4157 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4158 when the mode is enabled.
4160 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4161 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4162 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4163 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4164 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4165 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4166 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
4168 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4173 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4175 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4176 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4177 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4178 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4179 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4180 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4181 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4182 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4183 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4184 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4185 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4186 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4187 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4188 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4189 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4190 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4191 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4192 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4193 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4194 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4195 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4196 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4199 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4200 configuring glibc with:
4201 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
4202 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
4203 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4207 + define static_assert
4209 + do not declare gets
4211 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4213 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4214 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4215 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4218 + timespec_get added
4220 + uchar.h support added
4222 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4224 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4226 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
4228 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
4230 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4231 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4233 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4234 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4236 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4237 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4238 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4239 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4240 existing applications.
4242 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
4243 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4246 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4247 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4248 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4250 * New locales: mag_IN
4252 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4253 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4254 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4255 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4256 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
4258 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4260 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4263 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4265 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4266 without a previously built glibc.
4268 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4269 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4271 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4272 now supported for ARM processors.
4274 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4275 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4276 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4278 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
4280 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4281 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4282 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4283 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
4285 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4286 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4287 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4288 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4290 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4291 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4292 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4293 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4294 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4296 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4297 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4298 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4299 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
4303 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4305 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4306 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4307 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4308 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4309 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4310 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4311 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
4313 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4314 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4316 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4317 and support for initgroups lookups.
4318 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4320 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4321 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4323 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4324 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4326 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4327 on x86-32 and x86-64.
4328 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4330 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
4331 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4333 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4334 for x86-64 and x86-32.
4335 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4337 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4338 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4340 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4341 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4343 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4344 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4346 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4347 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4349 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4350 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4352 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4353 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4355 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
4357 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4358 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4360 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4361 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
4363 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
4367 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4369 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
4370 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
4371 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
4372 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4373 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4374 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4375 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4376 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4377 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4378 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4380 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4381 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4382 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
4383 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
4385 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
4386 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4387 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
4388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4390 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
4391 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
4393 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
4394 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
4396 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
4398 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4399 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4401 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4402 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4403 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4404 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
4408 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4410 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4411 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4412 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4413 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4416 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
4418 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
4420 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4421 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
4422 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4426 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4428 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4429 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4430 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4431 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
4432 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4433 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4434 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
4435 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
4437 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
4439 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4441 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4443 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4444 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4445 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4447 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4448 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4449 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4450 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4451 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4453 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
4457 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4459 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4460 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4461 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4462 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4463 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4464 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4466 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4468 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4470 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
4471 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4473 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4474 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4476 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4478 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
4479 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
4480 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
4481 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4483 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
4484 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4486 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4488 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4490 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4491 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4493 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4494 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4496 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4497 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4499 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4500 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4501 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4502 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4503 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4504 necessity is every process again.
4505 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4507 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4508 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4510 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4511 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4513 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4514 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4515 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4517 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
4521 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4523 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4524 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4525 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4526 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4527 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4529 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
4530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4532 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
4533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4535 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
4536 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
4538 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4541 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
4542 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4544 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4545 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4547 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4548 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4550 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4551 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4553 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4554 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4555 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4557 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
4559 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
4560 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4562 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4563 and extend existing format specifiers.
4564 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4566 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4567 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4569 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4570 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4571 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4572 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4573 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4574 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4578 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4580 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4581 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4582 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4583 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4584 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4586 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
4587 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4589 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4590 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
4592 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4593 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4595 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4596 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4597 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4599 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4600 Implemented by Eric Blake.
4602 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
4604 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
4605 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4607 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4608 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4609 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4610 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4612 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4613 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4615 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4617 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4619 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4623 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4625 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4626 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4627 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4628 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4629 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4630 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4631 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4633 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4635 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4637 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4638 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4640 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4642 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4645 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4646 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4648 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4649 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4650 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4652 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4653 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4655 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4656 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4658 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4659 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4661 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4662 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4666 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4668 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4669 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4670 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4671 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4672 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4674 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4675 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4677 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4679 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4680 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4681 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4683 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4684 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4686 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4687 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4689 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4691 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4692 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4694 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4695 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4697 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4698 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4700 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4702 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4703 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4705 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4706 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4709 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4710 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4714 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4716 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4717 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4718 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4719 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4720 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4721 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4722 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4725 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4727 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4729 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4733 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4735 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4736 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4737 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4738 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4739 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4740 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4741 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4742 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4743 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4745 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4746 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4747 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4749 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4750 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4752 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4754 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4756 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4757 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4758 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4759 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4760 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4762 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4763 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4764 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4765 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4767 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4770 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4772 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4775 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4777 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4778 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4782 * More overflow detection functions.
4784 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4785 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4787 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4788 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4789 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4790 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4791 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4792 by Masahide Washizawa.
4794 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4795 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4797 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4798 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4799 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4800 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4802 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4803 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4805 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4807 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4808 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4809 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4811 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4812 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4814 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4815 for compatibility with some other systems.
4817 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4821 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4823 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4824 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4825 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4826 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4827 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4828 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4830 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4832 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4834 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
4838 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4840 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4841 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4842 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4843 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4845 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4849 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4850 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4852 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4853 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4854 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4856 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4857 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4859 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
4861 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4863 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4864 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4867 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4868 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
4869 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4871 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
4872 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4874 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4875 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4876 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4877 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4879 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4880 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4881 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
4882 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4884 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4885 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4886 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4887 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4888 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
4892 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4893 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4895 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4896 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
4898 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
4899 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4901 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4902 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4904 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4907 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
4910 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4915 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4916 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4917 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4918 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4919 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4920 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4921 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4922 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4923 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4925 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4926 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4927 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4929 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
4931 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4932 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
4934 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4935 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4937 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
4939 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4940 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
4942 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4943 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4944 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4945 of weak definition in ld.so.
4947 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4948 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4950 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4951 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
4955 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4958 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4959 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
4961 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
4962 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
4964 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4965 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
4967 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
4968 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4969 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4971 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4972 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
4974 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
4975 implementation of regex.
4977 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4980 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4981 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
4983 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4984 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4985 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
4987 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
4988 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
4990 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4991 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4992 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
4994 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4995 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4997 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4998 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5001 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5005 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5006 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5008 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5009 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
5013 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5014 128-bit long double format.
5016 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5017 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
5019 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
5021 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5023 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5026 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5027 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
5029 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
5033 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
5034 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
5036 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5037 support Unicode 3.1.
5039 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5040 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
5042 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
5044 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
5045 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5046 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5048 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5049 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5051 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5052 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5054 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5058 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5059 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5060 in float, double, and long double format.
5062 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5063 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5064 128-bit long double format.
5066 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5067 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5068 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5069 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5071 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5072 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5073 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5075 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5076 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5078 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5079 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5081 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5082 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5083 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5085 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5086 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5088 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5089 of functions for Linux/x86.
5091 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5095 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5096 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5097 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5098 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5099 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5100 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5103 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5104 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5106 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5107 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5108 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5109 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5111 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5116 only lists the names of the supported locales
5120 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5121 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5125 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5126 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5127 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5128 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5129 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5131 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5133 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5135 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
5137 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5138 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5139 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
5141 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5142 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5144 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5145 changed from the default "C" locale.
5147 * The usual bug fixes.
5151 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5152 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5155 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5157 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
5159 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5160 obviously requires a database library being available.
5162 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5164 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
5166 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5167 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5169 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5171 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5172 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5175 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5176 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5177 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
5179 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
5180 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5182 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5183 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5184 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5186 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5187 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5188 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5189 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5191 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5192 structures for the wide character tables.
5194 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5196 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
5198 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5200 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5203 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5205 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5207 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5209 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5211 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5213 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5214 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5215 implemented for Linux.
5217 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5218 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5219 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5222 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5225 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
5239 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5241 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5243 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
5245 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5247 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
5249 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
5251 * Update timezone data files.
5253 * lots of charmaps corrections
5255 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
5260 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5261 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5262 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5263 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5264 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5265 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5267 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
5268 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5270 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
5273 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5274 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
5276 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
5278 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
5281 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
5283 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5284 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
5286 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5289 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
5290 functions from ISO C 9X.
5292 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5293 real valued functions.
5295 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
5297 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5299 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
5301 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
5303 * Optimized string functions have been added.
5305 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
5307 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5309 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5310 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5312 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5313 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5317 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
5319 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
5321 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
5323 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5325 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5327 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
5329 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5330 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
5333 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5334 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
5336 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
5338 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
5340 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5341 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5343 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
5345 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5348 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5349 latest draft standards.
5351 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5353 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5354 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5355 addseverity NEW: Unix98
5356 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
5357 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5358 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5359 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5360 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5361 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5362 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5363 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5364 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5365 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5366 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
5367 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5368 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5369 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
5370 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5371 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5372 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5374 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5375 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5376 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5377 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5378 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5385 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5386 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5387 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5388 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5389 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5391 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5392 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5393 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5394 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5395 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5396 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5400 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5401 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5407 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5408 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5409 clearerr_locked REMOVED
5410 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5412 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5413 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5414 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5424 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5425 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5427 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5428 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5433 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5434 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5437 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5438 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5442 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5443 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5445 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5446 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5447 endutxent NEW: Unix98
5449 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5450 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5454 fattach NEW: STREAMS
5455 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5459 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5460 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5461 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5462 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5463 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5465 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5466 ferror_locked REMOVED
5467 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5468 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5469 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5470 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5471 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5472 fflush_locked REMOVED
5476 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5477 fileno_locked REMOVED
5489 fputc_locked REMOVED
5490 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5491 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5496 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5500 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5502 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5503 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5507 getchar_locked REMOVED
5509 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5510 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5512 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
5513 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
5514 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5515 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5516 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5517 getutxent NEW: Unix98
5518 getutxid NEW: Unix98
5519 getutxline NEW: Unix98
5520 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5521 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5522 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5523 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5524 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5525 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5527 iconv_close NEW: iconv
5528 iconv_open NEW: iconv
5529 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5530 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5531 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5532 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5533 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5534 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5535 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5536 isastream NEW: STREAMS
5537 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
5538 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5539 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5540 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5541 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5542 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5543 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5544 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5545 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5546 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
5547 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5548 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5549 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5550 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5551 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5552 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5557 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5558 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5559 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5560 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5561 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5563 makecontext NEW: Unix98
5564 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5567 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5571 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5572 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5573 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5574 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5575 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
5576 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5577 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5578 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
5582 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
5584 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5585 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5588 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5589 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5590 profil_counter REMOVED
5591 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5592 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5593 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5594 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5596 putchar_locked REMOVED
5597 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5599 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5600 pututxline NEW: Unix98
5604 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5605 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5606 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5607 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5609 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5610 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5612 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5613 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5614 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5616 sendfile NEW: kernel
5617 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5618 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5619 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5621 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5622 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5623 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5624 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5625 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5626 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5627 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5628 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5629 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5633 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5634 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5635 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5636 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5637 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5638 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5639 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5640 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5641 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5642 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5643 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5644 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5645 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5649 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5650 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5652 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5653 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5654 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5655 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5656 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5657 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5659 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5660 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5661 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5662 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5663 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5664 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5665 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5667 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5668 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5669 write_profiling REMOVED
5670 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5671 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5672 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5673 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5674 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5675 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5676 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5677 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5678 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5679 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5680 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5681 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5682 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5683 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5684 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5685 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5696 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5698 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5700 * rewrite of cbrt function
5702 * update of timezone data
5716 * add atoll function
5718 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5720 * fix math functions
5724 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5726 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5728 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5729 the ELF dynamic loader.
5731 * support for parallel builds is improved
5735 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5736 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5739 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5740 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5741 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5742 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5743 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5744 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5745 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5746 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5747 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5748 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5749 files in the ELF format.
5751 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5752 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5754 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5755 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5756 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5757 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5758 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5759 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5760 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5761 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5762 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5763 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5764 about dynamically linked binaries.
5766 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5767 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5768 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5769 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5770 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5772 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5773 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5774 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5775 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5776 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5778 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5780 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5781 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5782 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5783 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5784 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5785 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5786 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5787 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5788 NSS services available.
5790 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5791 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5792 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5794 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5795 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5796 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5798 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5799 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5800 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5801 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5803 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5804 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5805 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5807 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5808 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5809 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5811 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5812 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5814 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5815 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5816 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5817 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5819 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5820 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5821 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5823 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5824 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5825 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5826 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5827 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5828 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
5829 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
5830 the header file <printf.h> for details.
5832 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5833 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5834 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5835 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5836 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5837 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5838 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
5840 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5841 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5842 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5843 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5844 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5845 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5847 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5848 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5850 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5851 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5852 NSS scheme used in glibc.
5854 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5856 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5857 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5858 their use is discouraged.
5860 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5861 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
5863 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5864 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
5866 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5867 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5869 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5872 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5873 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
5874 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5875 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5876 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
5878 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5879 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5880 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5881 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
5883 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5884 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5886 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5887 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5888 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5889 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5892 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5893 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5895 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5896 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5898 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
5899 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
5900 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5901 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
5903 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5905 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5906 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5907 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5909 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5910 for arithmetic and string handling.
5912 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
5913 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5914 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5915 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5917 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5918 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5919 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5920 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5921 programs already written to use it.)
5923 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5926 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5929 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5930 a given effective group ID.
5932 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5933 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5934 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5935 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5937 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
5938 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
5939 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5940 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5941 doing the same thing.
5943 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5944 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5946 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
5947 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
5949 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5951 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5952 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5953 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
5954 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
5955 `-ldb' to get these functions.
5957 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5958 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
5960 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
5961 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5962 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5965 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5967 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5968 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5971 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5972 and writing the utmp file.
5974 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5977 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5978 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5979 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5981 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5982 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5984 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5985 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5988 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5989 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5990 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5991 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5993 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5994 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5995 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5997 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5998 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5999 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6002 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6005 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6008 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6010 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6011 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6012 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
6016 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6018 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6019 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6021 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6022 want to put themselves in the background.
6024 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6025 run without an operating system.
6027 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6028 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6030 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6031 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6033 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6035 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6036 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6039 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6042 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6043 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6047 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6048 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6049 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6051 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6052 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6054 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6055 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6057 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6059 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6061 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6064 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6065 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6066 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6068 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6070 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6071 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6072 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6074 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6075 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6076 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6077 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6078 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6081 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6082 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6083 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6084 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6085 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6088 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6089 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6093 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6094 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6096 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6097 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6098 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6100 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6101 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6102 address of the last character written.
6104 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6105 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6107 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6108 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6110 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6111 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6112 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6113 you dereference this pointer.
6115 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6116 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6118 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6119 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6120 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6121 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6123 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6124 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6125 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6126 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6130 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6131 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6132 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6133 in Emacs or the `info' program.
6134 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
6136 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6138 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6140 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6141 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6143 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6144 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6146 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6147 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6149 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6150 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6151 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6152 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6153 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6155 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6156 to the error code in `errno'.
6158 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6159 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6160 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6163 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6164 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6165 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6167 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6168 uniquely-named temporary file.
6172 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6173 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6174 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6176 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6179 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6180 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6182 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6186 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6187 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6188 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6189 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6191 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6192 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6193 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6195 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6196 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6198 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6199 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6200 made itself into a shared library.
6202 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6203 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6205 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6206 with limited length.
6208 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6210 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6212 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6214 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6215 function for traversing a directory tree.
6217 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6218 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6219 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6220 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6222 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6223 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6225 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6227 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6228 things to your strings.
6230 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6232 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6233 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6234 supporting those systems.
6236 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6237 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6238 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6239 configuration files.
6241 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6242 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6244 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
6245 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6248 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6249 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6250 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6251 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6252 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6253 required storage is not available.
6255 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6256 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
6258 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6259 latest files released from Berkeley.
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6270 of this document, or of portions of it,
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