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12 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
13 to change argv[0] string.
15 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
16 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
17 larger than fit in an integer.
19 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
21 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
22 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
28 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
31 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
33 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
36 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
37 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
38 Instead, the default implementation is used.
40 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
41 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
42 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
45 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
47 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
48 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
49 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
50 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
51 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
52 perform any adjustments.
54 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
55 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
56 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
57 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
59 Security related changes:
61 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
62 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
63 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
65 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
67 [The release manager will add the list generated by
68 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
75 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
76 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
77 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
79 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
81 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
82 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
83 Three ABIs are supported:
89 The arc* ABI is little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
90 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
92 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
93 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
95 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
96 using the -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
97 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
100 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
101 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
102 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
104 * On Linux, functions the pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
105 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
106 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
108 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
109 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
110 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
111 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
114 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
115 sigabbrev_np returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for SIGHUP)
116 while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number (e.g
117 "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
118 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
119 NULL for an invalid signal number.
121 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
122 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
124 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
125 strerroname_np returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL) while
126 strerrordesc_np returns string describing error number
127 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
128 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
129 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
131 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
132 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
134 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
135 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
136 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
137 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
138 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
139 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
140 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
141 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
142 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
143 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
144 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
147 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
149 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
150 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
151 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
152 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
153 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
154 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
155 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
157 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
158 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
159 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
160 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
161 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
162 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
163 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
164 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depended on libnsl
165 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
167 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
168 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
169 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
170 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
171 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
173 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
174 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
175 was not declared in any header file.
177 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
178 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
179 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
180 sigaction functions instead.
182 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
183 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
185 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
186 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
187 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
188 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
191 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
192 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
193 have been removed from from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
194 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
195 strerror or strerror_r instead.
197 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
198 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
199 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
200 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
202 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
203 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
204 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
205 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
206 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
207 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
208 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
210 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
211 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
212 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
213 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
214 flavor of secure RPC.)
216 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
217 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
218 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
219 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
220 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
221 object, to enable the hooks.
223 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
224 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
225 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
228 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
230 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
231 long double redirects.
233 Security related changes:
235 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
236 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
237 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
239 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
240 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
241 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
243 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
244 expanding ~user has been fixed.
246 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
247 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
248 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
251 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
253 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
254 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
255 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
256 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
257 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
258 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
259 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
260 filtee has constructor
261 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
262 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
263 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
264 character entities for infinity & pi
265 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
266 segfaults in applications
267 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
268 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
269 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
270 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
271 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
272 function with -mlong-double-64
273 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
275 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
277 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
278 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
279 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
280 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
281 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
282 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
284 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
285 dynamically loaded dsos
286 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
287 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
289 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
290 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
291 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
292 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
293 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
294 stale configuration forever
295 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
297 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
299 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
300 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
302 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
303 on 32 bit and old kernel
304 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
305 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
307 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
308 amount of sigset_t bytes
309 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
311 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
312 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
313 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
314 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
315 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
316 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
317 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
318 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
319 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
320 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
322 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
323 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
324 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
325 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
326 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
327 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
328 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
330 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
331 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
333 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
334 exiting detached thread
335 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
337 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
339 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
340 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
341 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
342 dependencies in audit mode
343 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
344 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
345 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
346 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
347 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
349 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
350 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
352 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
353 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
355 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
356 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
357 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
358 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
359 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
360 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
368 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
369 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
370 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
371 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
372 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
373 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
375 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
376 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
377 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
378 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
380 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
381 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
382 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
384 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
386 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
387 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
388 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
389 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
390 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
391 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
392 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
393 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
395 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
397 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
398 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
399 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
400 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
401 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
402 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
404 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
405 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
406 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
408 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
409 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
410 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
411 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
413 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
414 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
415 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
416 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
417 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
418 made this no longer practical.
420 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
421 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
422 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
423 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
426 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
427 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
428 with the current time, use the localtime function.
430 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
431 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
432 using clock_gettime instead.
434 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
435 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
436 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
437 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
438 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
440 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
441 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
442 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
443 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
445 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
446 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
447 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
448 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
449 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
450 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
452 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
453 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
454 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
455 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
458 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
459 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
460 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
462 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
465 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
466 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
467 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
468 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
469 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
471 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
472 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
473 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
474 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
475 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
476 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
477 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
478 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
480 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
481 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
483 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
484 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
485 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
486 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
487 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
488 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
490 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
492 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
493 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
494 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
496 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
497 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
498 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
500 Security related changes:
502 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
503 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
505 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
506 environment variable during program execution after a security
507 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
508 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
509 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
511 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
513 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
514 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
515 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
516 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
517 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
518 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
519 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
520 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
522 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
523 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
524 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
525 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
526 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
527 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
528 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
529 constructors/destructors is not fatal
530 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
531 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
533 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
535 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
536 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
537 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
538 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
539 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
540 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
541 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
543 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
545 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
546 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
547 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
548 (stringop-overflow error)
549 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
550 functions other can lead to crashes
551 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
552 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
554 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
555 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
556 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
557 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
558 still can fail with an error
559 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
560 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
561 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
562 initialized correctly
563 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
565 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
567 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
568 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
569 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
571 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
573 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
575 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
577 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
578 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
579 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
581 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
582 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
584 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
585 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
586 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
587 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
588 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
589 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
596 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
597 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
598 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
600 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
601 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
603 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
604 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
605 to the callback function.
607 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
609 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
610 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
613 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
615 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
616 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
617 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
618 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
619 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
621 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
622 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
623 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
624 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
625 link time reference, is gone.
627 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
628 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
629 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
630 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
631 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
632 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
633 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
634 the clock choice at initialization time).
636 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
637 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
638 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
640 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
642 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
643 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
644 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
645 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
646 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
647 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
648 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
649 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
650 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
652 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
653 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
654 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
655 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
658 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
659 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
661 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
662 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
664 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
665 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
667 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
670 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
671 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
672 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
674 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
675 header have been removed.
677 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
678 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
679 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
680 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
682 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
684 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
686 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
687 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
689 Security related changes:
691 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
692 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
693 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
694 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
695 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
696 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
697 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
699 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
700 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
701 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
703 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
705 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
706 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
707 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
708 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
709 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
710 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
711 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
712 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
713 invalid input drops valid char
714 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
715 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
716 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
717 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
718 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
720 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
721 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
722 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
723 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
725 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
726 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
727 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
728 for long double = double
729 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
731 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
732 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
733 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
735 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
736 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
738 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
739 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
740 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
741 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
742 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
743 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
744 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
745 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
746 not the default "nor"
747 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
748 false positives, change to modern flexible array
749 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
750 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
752 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
753 unnecessary librt dependencies
754 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
755 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
756 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
757 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
759 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
760 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
762 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
763 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
765 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
766 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
767 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
768 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
770 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
771 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
772 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
773 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
775 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
777 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
778 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
780 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
781 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
782 kernels and break testing
783 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
784 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
785 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
786 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
787 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
788 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
789 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
791 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
792 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
794 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
796 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
797 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
798 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
799 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
800 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
801 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
802 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
803 always implemented in the same library
804 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
805 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
806 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
814 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
815 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
817 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
818 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
819 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
820 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
821 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
824 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
826 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
827 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
829 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
830 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
831 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
832 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
833 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
834 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
835 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
836 process actually does not use HTM).
838 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
839 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
840 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
841 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
842 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
845 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
846 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
847 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
848 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
849 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
851 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
852 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
854 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
855 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
857 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
858 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
859 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
860 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
861 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
862 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
863 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
865 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
866 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
867 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
869 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
871 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
872 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
874 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
875 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
876 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
877 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
879 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
880 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
881 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
882 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
885 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
886 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
887 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
888 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
889 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
890 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
892 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
893 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
894 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
895 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
896 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
898 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
899 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
900 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
902 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
904 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
906 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
907 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
909 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
910 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
912 Security related changes:
914 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
915 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
916 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
918 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
919 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
920 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
921 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
924 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
925 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
926 or command injection issues in applications.
928 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
930 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
931 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
932 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
934 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
935 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
936 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
938 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
939 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
940 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
941 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
942 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
943 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
944 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
945 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
946 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
947 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
948 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
949 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
950 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
951 pointer argument is non-NULL
952 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
953 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
954 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
955 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
956 multithreads call popen
957 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
958 and pthread_create fails.
959 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
960 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
962 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
963 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
964 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
966 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
968 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
970 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
971 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
973 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
974 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
975 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
976 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
977 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
978 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
979 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
981 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
982 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
983 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
985 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
986 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
987 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
988 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
990 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
992 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
993 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
994 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
995 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
997 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
999 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1000 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1001 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1003 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1004 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1005 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1006 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1007 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1008 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1010 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1011 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1012 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1013 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1014 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1015 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1016 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1017 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1018 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1019 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1020 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1021 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1022 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1023 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1025 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1026 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1027 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1028 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1029 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1031 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1032 nearest rounding mode
1033 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1034 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1035 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1036 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1037 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1038 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1039 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1040 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1041 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1043 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1044 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1046 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1047 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1048 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1049 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1051 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1053 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1055 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1057 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1058 answers will be rejected)
1059 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1066 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1067 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1068 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1069 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1070 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1071 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1072 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1073 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1074 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1075 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1076 archive or binary locales.
1078 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1079 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1080 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1081 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1082 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1083 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1084 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1085 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
1086 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1087 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1088 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1091 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1092 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1093 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1094 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1095 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1096 field) to indicate such support is required.
1098 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1099 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1100 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1102 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1103 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1105 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1106 fMxaddfNx functions.
1108 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1109 fMxsubfNx functions.
1111 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1112 fMxmulfNx functions.
1114 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1115 fMxdivfNx functions.
1117 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
1118 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
1119 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
1120 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1123 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
1124 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
1126 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1129 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1130 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1131 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1132 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1133 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1134 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1135 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1136 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1138 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1139 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1140 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1141 the fstatat64 function.
1143 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1144 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1145 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1146 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1147 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1148 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1149 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1150 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1151 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1153 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1154 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1155 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1156 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1157 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1158 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1159 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1160 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1161 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1162 results in a load failure now.
1164 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1165 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1168 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1169 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1171 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1172 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1174 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1176 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1177 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1179 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1181 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1183 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1185 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1186 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1187 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1189 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1190 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1191 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1192 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1193 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1194 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1196 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1197 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1198 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1199 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1200 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1201 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1204 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1205 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1206 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1207 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1208 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1209 further explanation.
1211 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1212 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1213 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
1215 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1217 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1218 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1219 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1221 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1222 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1223 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1224 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1226 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1227 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1228 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1229 for this function instead.
1231 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1232 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1233 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1235 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1236 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1237 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1238 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1240 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1241 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1242 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1243 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1244 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1246 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1247 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1248 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1249 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1250 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1251 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1254 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1255 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1256 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1259 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1260 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1261 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1263 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1264 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1265 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1266 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1267 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1268 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1270 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1271 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1272 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1273 behavior in a future release.
1275 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1277 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
1279 Security related changes:
1281 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1282 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1283 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1284 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
1286 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1287 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1289 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1290 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1293 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1294 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1295 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1297 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1299 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1300 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1301 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1302 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1303 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1304 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1305 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1306 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1307 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1309 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1310 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1311 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1312 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1313 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1315 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1317 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1318 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1319 scope with -O1 and higher
1320 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1321 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1322 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1323 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1324 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1325 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1326 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1327 horrible machine code)
1328 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1330 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1331 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1333 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1334 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1336 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1337 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1338 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1339 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1340 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1342 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1343 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1344 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1345 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1346 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1348 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1349 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1350 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1352 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1353 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1354 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1355 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1356 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1357 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1358 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1359 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1360 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1361 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1362 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1363 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1364 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1366 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1368 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1369 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1370 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1371 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1372 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1373 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1374 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1375 for Spanish with CLDR
1376 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1377 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1378 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1379 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1380 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1381 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1383 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1385 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1386 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1387 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1388 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1390 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1391 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1392 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1393 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1394 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1395 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1396 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1397 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1398 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1399 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1400 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1401 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1402 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1403 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1404 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1405 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1406 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1408 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1409 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1411 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1412 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1413 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1414 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1415 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1416 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1418 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1420 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1421 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1422 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1423 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1424 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1425 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1426 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1427 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1428 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1429 and libc build with -Os)
1430 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1431 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1432 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1433 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1434 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1435 that changes /etc/passwd
1436 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1438 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1439 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1440 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1442 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1443 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1444 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1445 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1446 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1448 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1449 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1451 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1452 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1453 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1454 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1456 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1457 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1458 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1459 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1461 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1463 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1465 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1467 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1469 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1470 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1471 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1472 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1473 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1474 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1475 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1476 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1478 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
1485 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1486 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
1487 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
1488 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1489 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1490 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1491 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
1492 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1493 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
1495 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
1496 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1499 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1501 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
1503 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1504 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1505 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1506 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1507 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1508 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1509 from a security and performance perspective.
1511 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1512 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1513 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1514 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1516 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
1517 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1518 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1519 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
1520 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1522 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
1523 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
1524 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1525 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1528 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1529 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1530 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
1532 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
1534 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1535 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1538 * The copy_file_range function was added.
1540 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1542 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1543 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1544 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1546 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1547 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1548 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1549 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1550 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1551 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1552 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1554 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1555 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1556 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1557 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1558 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1559 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1560 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1562 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1563 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1564 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1565 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1568 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1569 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1570 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1571 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1573 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1574 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1575 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1577 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1578 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1579 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1581 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1582 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1583 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1589 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1591 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1592 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1593 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1594 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1595 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1596 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1597 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1598 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1599 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1602 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1603 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1604 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1606 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1607 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1608 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1609 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1610 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1611 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1612 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1613 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1614 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1615 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1616 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1617 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1618 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1619 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1620 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1621 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1622 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1623 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1624 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1625 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1626 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1627 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1628 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1629 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1630 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1631 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1633 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1634 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1636 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1637 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1638 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1639 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1640 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1641 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1642 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1644 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1645 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1646 exp10l for these functions instead.
1648 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1649 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1650 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1652 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1653 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1656 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1657 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1658 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1659 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1661 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1662 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1664 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1665 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1667 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1670 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1672 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1673 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1674 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1677 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1678 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1679 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1680 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1681 use, but predates the bits convention.
1683 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1685 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1688 Security related changes:
1690 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1691 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1692 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1693 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1696 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1697 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1698 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1699 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1701 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1702 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1703 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1706 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1707 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1708 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1710 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1711 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1712 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1713 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1715 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1716 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1717 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1720 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1721 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1722 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1723 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1724 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1726 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1727 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1730 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1731 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1732 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1734 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1735 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1736 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1738 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1739 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1740 small, instead of NULL.
1742 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1744 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1745 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1746 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1748 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1749 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1750 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1752 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1753 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1754 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1755 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1756 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1757 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1758 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1759 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1760 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1762 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1763 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1764 width Latin characters
1765 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1766 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1767 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1769 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1770 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1772 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1773 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1774 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1775 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1776 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1778 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1779 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1780 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1781 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1782 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1783 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1784 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1785 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1786 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1787 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1789 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1790 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1791 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1792 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1793 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1794 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1795 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1796 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1798 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1799 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1801 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1802 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1804 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1805 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1806 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1807 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1808 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1809 __regcall calling convention
1810 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1811 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1812 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1813 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1814 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1815 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1816 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1817 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1818 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1819 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1820 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1821 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1822 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1824 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1826 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1828 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1829 consistency check failures
1830 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1831 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1832 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1833 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1835 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1837 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1838 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1839 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1840 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1841 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1842 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1843 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1844 on memory allocation failure
1845 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1846 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1848 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1850 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1851 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1852 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1853 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1854 instead of EAI_NODATA
1855 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1856 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1857 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1858 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1860 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1861 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1862 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1863 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1864 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1865 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1866 allocation in syscall loops)
1867 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1868 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1869 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1870 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1871 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1872 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1873 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1874 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1875 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1877 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1878 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1879 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1881 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1882 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1884 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1886 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1887 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1888 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1889 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1890 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1891 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1892 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1893 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1894 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1895 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1896 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1897 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1898 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1899 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1900 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1901 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1902 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1903 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1905 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1907 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1908 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1910 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1911 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1912 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1913 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1915 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1916 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1917 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1918 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1919 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1920 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1921 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1922 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1923 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1924 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1925 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1927 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1928 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1929 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1930 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1931 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1932 the svid compat wrapper
1933 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1934 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1935 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1936 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1937 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1938 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1940 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1941 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1943 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1944 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1945 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1946 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1947 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1948 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1950 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1951 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1952 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1953 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1955 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1956 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1958 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1959 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1960 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1961 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1962 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1963 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1964 inside the ASCII printable range
1965 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1967 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1968 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1969 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1971 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1972 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1974 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1975 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1976 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1978 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1979 networking interface
1980 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1981 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1982 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1983 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1984 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1985 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1986 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1987 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1988 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1990 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1991 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1992 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1993 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1994 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1995 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1996 same as for Croatian
1997 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1998 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1999 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2001 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2003 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2004 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2005 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2006 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2007 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2009 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2010 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2011 modified in case of success
2012 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2013 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2015 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2017 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2018 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2019 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2020 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2021 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2022 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2023 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2024 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2026 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2027 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2028 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2029 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2030 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2031 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2032 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2033 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2034 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2036 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2037 elision and tunables
2038 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2040 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2041 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2042 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2044 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2045 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2047 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2048 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2049 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2050 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2051 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2052 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2053 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2054 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2055 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2062 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2063 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2064 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2065 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2066 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2067 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2068 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2070 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2071 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
2072 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2073 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2074 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2075 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2076 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
2078 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2079 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2082 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
2084 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2085 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2086 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
2088 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2089 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2090 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2091 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2092 object are still limited to six search domains.
2094 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2095 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2096 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
2098 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2099 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
2101 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2102 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2103 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2104 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
2106 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2107 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2108 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2109 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
2111 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2112 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2113 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2114 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2116 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2117 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2118 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
2120 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
2121 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2122 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2123 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2125 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
2126 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2127 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2128 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2129 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2131 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2132 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2133 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2134 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2135 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2136 interfaces should be used instead.
2138 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2140 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2141 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2142 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2143 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2144 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2145 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2146 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2147 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2149 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2152 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
2153 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2154 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2155 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2157 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2158 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2161 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2162 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2163 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
2164 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2165 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2167 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2168 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2169 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2170 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2172 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2173 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2174 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2175 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2177 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2178 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
2180 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2181 exported by accident.
2183 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2184 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2185 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2187 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2188 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2189 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2190 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2192 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2194 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2196 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2199 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2200 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2202 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2203 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2205 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2206 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2207 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2208 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2209 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2210 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2211 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2212 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2214 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2215 synced with the kernel:
2217 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2218 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2220 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2221 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2222 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2224 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2225 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2227 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2229 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2230 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2233 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
2235 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2236 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
2238 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2239 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2240 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2241 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2242 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
2244 Security related changes:
2246 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
2247 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2249 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2250 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2252 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2253 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2256 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2257 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
2259 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2261 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2262 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2263 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2265 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2267 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2268 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2269 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2271 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2272 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2273 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2274 x86 and other generic code
2275 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2276 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2278 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2279 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2280 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2281 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2282 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2283 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2284 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2286 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2287 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2288 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2289 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2291 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2292 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2294 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2296 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2297 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2298 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2300 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2301 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2302 failures consistently
2303 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2304 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2305 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2306 frame-pointer on i386
2307 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2309 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2310 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2311 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2312 generic c code is used
2313 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2314 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2316 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2318 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2319 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2321 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2322 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2323 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2324 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2325 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2326 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2327 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2328 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2329 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2330 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2332 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2334 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2335 new posix_spawn implementation
2336 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2337 leads to lower CPU frequency
2338 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2339 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2340 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2341 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2342 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2343 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2344 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2345 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2346 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2347 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2348 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2349 not support gethostbyname4_r
2350 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2352 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2354 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2355 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2356 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2357 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2358 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2359 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2360 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2362 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2363 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2364 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2365 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2366 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2367 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2368 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2369 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2370 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2371 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2372 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2373 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2375 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2376 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2377 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2378 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2379 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2380 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2381 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2382 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2384 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2385 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2386 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2387 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2388 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2389 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2390 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2391 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2392 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2393 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2394 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2395 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2396 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2397 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2398 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2399 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2400 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2401 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2402 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2403 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2404 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2406 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2407 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2408 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2409 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2410 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2412 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2413 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2415 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2416 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2418 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2419 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2421 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2422 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2423 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2424 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2426 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2427 leading to relocation crash
2428 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2429 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2430 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2431 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2432 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2433 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2434 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2435 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2436 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2438 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2440 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2441 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2442 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2443 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2444 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2445 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2446 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2447 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2449 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2451 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2453 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2454 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2455 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2456 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2457 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2458 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2459 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2460 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2461 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2462 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2463 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2464 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2465 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2466 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2467 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2468 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2469 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2470 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2471 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2472 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2473 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2474 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2475 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2476 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2477 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2478 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2479 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2481 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2482 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2483 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2484 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2485 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
2490 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2491 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2492 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2495 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2496 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2497 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
2500 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2501 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2502 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2505 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2506 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2507 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2508 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2509 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2510 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2511 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2514 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2515 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2518 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2519 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2520 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2522 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2523 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2524 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2525 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2528 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
2529 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2530 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
2532 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2533 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
2534 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2535 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2536 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2537 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2538 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2539 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2540 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2541 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2542 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2545 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2547 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2549 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2550 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2551 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2553 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2554 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2556 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2559 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2561 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2563 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2564 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2566 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2568 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2569 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2571 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2572 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2574 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2575 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2576 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2578 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2579 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2580 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2581 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2582 effects of the memory clear).
2584 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2585 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2586 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2587 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2589 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2590 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2591 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2592 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2593 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2594 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2596 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2599 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2600 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2601 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2602 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2603 as large as several megabytes.
2605 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2606 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2609 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2610 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2611 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2612 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2613 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2614 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2615 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2617 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2618 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2619 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2620 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2622 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2623 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2624 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2627 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2628 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2629 They were already unimplemented.
2631 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2632 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2633 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2634 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2636 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2637 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2638 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2639 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2640 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2642 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2643 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2644 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2645 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2646 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2648 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2649 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2650 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2651 did not reflect that.
2653 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2654 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2655 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2656 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2657 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2658 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2659 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2662 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2663 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2664 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2665 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2667 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2668 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2669 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2670 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2672 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2673 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2676 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2677 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2680 Security related changes:
2682 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2683 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2684 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2685 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2686 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2688 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2689 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2690 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2691 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2694 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2696 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2697 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2699 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2700 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2701 before it started waiting
2702 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2703 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2704 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2705 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2707 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2708 library linked with pthread
2709 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2710 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2711 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2712 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2713 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2714 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2715 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2717 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2719 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2720 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2721 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2722 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2723 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2724 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2725 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2726 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2727 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2729 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2730 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2731 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2732 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2733 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2734 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2735 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2736 causes a segmentation fault
2737 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2739 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2740 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2742 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2744 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2745 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2746 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2748 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2749 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2751 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2752 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2753 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2754 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2755 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2756 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2757 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2758 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2760 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2761 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2762 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2764 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2766 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2768 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2769 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2770 cause transition penalty
2771 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2772 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2773 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2774 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2775 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2777 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2779 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2780 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2781 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2782 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2783 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2784 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2786 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2788 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2789 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2790 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2791 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2792 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2793 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2794 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2795 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2796 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2797 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2798 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2799 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2800 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2801 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2803 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2804 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2805 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2806 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2807 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2808 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2809 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2810 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2811 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2812 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2813 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2814 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2815 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2816 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2817 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2818 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2819 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2820 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2822 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2823 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2824 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2825 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2826 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2828 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2829 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2830 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2831 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2832 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2833 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2834 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2836 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2837 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2838 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2839 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2840 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2844 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2845 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2846 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2847 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2848 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2851 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2852 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2853 been included in previous releases.
2855 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2856 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2858 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2859 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2860 instead of “union wait”.
2862 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2863 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2864 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2865 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2866 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2867 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2868 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2870 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2873 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2874 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2877 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2878 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2879 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2880 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2881 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2884 Security related changes:
2886 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2887 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2888 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2890 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2891 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2892 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2893 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
2895 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2896 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2897 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2899 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2900 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2901 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2903 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2904 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2905 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2906 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2908 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2910 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2911 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2913 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2914 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2915 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2916 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2917 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2918 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2919 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2920 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2922 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2923 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2924 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2925 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2926 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2927 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2929 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2931 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2932 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2933 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2934 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2935 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2936 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2937 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2938 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2939 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2940 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2941 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2943 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2944 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2945 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2946 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2947 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2948 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2950 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2951 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2953 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2954 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2955 Romanian locale data
2956 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2958 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2959 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2961 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2962 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2963 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2964 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2966 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2968 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2969 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2970 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2971 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2972 when using RTLD_NEXT
2973 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2974 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2975 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2976 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2977 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2978 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2979 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2980 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2981 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2983 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2984 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2985 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2986 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2988 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2990 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2992 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2993 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2994 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2995 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2996 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2997 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2999 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3000 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3002 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3003 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3005 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3007 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3009 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3010 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3011 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3012 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3013 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3014 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3015 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3016 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3017 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3018 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3019 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3020 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3021 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3022 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3024 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3026 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3027 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3028 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3029 response to getaddrinfo
3030 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3031 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3032 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3033 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3034 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3035 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3037 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3038 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3039 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3041 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3042 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3043 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3044 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3046 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3047 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3048 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3050 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3051 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3052 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3053 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3054 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3055 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3056 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3057 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3059 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3060 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3061 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3063 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3064 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3065 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3066 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3067 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3068 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3069 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3070 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3071 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3072 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3073 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3074 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3075 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3077 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3078 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3079 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3080 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3082 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3083 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3085 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3086 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3087 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3088 AS not supporting AVX512
3089 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3091 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3092 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3094 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3095 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3096 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3097 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3098 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3100 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3101 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3103 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3104 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3105 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3106 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3107 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3108 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3109 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3110 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3111 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3113 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3114 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3115 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3116 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3117 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3118 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3119 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3120 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3121 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3122 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3123 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3124 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3125 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3127 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3128 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3129 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3130 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3131 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3133 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3134 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3136 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3137 "invalid" exceptions
3138 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3139 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3140 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3141 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3142 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3143 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3144 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3145 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3146 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
3150 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3151 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3152 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3153 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3154 89, 16061, and 18568.
3156 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3157 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3158 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3159 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3160 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3161 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3162 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3164 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3165 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3166 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3168 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3169 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3170 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3171 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3172 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3173 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3174 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3176 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3177 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3178 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3179 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3180 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
3181 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
3182 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3185 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3186 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3187 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3188 independent of the GNU C Library.
3190 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3191 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
3193 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3194 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3195 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3196 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3197 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3200 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3201 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
3203 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3204 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3205 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3206 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3207 defining their own copy.
3209 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3210 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3211 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3213 Security related changes:
3215 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3216 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3218 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3219 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3220 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3221 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3224 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3225 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3227 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3228 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3230 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3231 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
3232 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
3234 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3235 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3236 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3237 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3238 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3239 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3240 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3241 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3242 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3243 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3244 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3245 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3246 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3248 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3250 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3251 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3252 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3253 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3254 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3255 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3257 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3258 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3259 overflow/underflow errors
3260 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3262 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3263 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3264 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3265 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3266 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3267 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3269 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3270 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3271 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3272 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3273 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3274 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3275 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3276 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3277 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3279 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3281 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3282 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3283 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3285 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3286 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3287 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3288 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3289 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3291 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3292 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3294 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3295 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3296 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3297 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3298 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3299 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3300 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3301 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3303 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3304 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3305 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3306 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3307 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3309 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3310 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3312 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3313 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3314 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3315 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3316 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3318 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3319 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3320 (related to lock elision)
3321 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3322 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3323 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3324 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3326 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3327 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3328 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3329 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3330 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3331 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3332 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3333 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3334 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3335 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3336 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3337 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3338 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3339 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3340 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3341 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3342 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3343 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3344 contains a vector instruction exception.
3345 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3346 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3348 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3349 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3350 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3351 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3352 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3354 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3356 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3357 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3359 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3360 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3361 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3362 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3363 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3365 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3366 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3367 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3368 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3369 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3370 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3371 statically too large
3372 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3373 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3374 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3375 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3376 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3377 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3378 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3379 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3380 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3382 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3383 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3384 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3385 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3386 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3387 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3388 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3390 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3391 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3392 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3393 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3395 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3396 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3397 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3398 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3399 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3400 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3402 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3403 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3404 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3405 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3406 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3407 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3409 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3410 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3411 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3412 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3413 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3414 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3415 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3416 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3418 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3419 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3420 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3421 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3422 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3423 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3424 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3425 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3426 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3428 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3430 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3431 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3432 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3434 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3435 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3436 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3437 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3438 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3439 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3440 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3441 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3442 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3443 pthread_setaffinity_np
3444 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3445 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3446 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3447 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3448 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3450 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3451 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3452 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3453 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3454 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3455 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3456 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3458 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3459 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3460 for C99-based standards
3461 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3462 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3464 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3465 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3466 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3468 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3469 "inexact" exceptions
3470 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3472 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3473 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3474 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3475 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3477 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3478 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3479 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3480 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3481 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3482 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3483 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3484 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3485 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3486 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3488 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3489 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3490 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3491 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3493 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3494 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3495 error on 32-bit architectures
3496 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3497 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3498 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3499 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3500 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3501 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3502 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3503 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3504 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3506 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3508 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3509 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3510 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3511 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3513 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
3517 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3519 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
3520 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3521 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3522 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3523 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3524 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3525 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3526 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3527 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3528 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3529 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3530 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3531 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3532 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3533 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3534 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3535 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3536 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
3537 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3538 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
3540 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3541 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3543 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3544 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3545 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3546 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3547 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3548 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
3550 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3551 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3552 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3553 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3554 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3556 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3557 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3558 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3560 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3561 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3562 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3565 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3566 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3567 condition in some applications.
3569 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3570 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3572 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3573 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3574 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3575 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3576 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3578 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3579 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3580 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3581 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3583 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3584 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3585 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3587 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3588 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3590 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3591 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3592 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3594 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3595 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3596 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3600 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3602 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3603 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3604 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3605 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3606 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3607 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3608 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3609 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3610 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3611 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3614 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3615 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3616 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3617 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3620 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3621 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3622 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3623 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3624 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3625 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3627 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3629 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3630 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3631 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3633 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3634 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3635 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3636 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3637 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3638 effects being visible outside transactions.
3640 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3641 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3643 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3645 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3646 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3647 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3648 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3649 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3651 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3652 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3654 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3655 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3658 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3659 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3660 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3662 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3663 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3665 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3667 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3668 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3669 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3670 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3672 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3673 with newer versions of bison.
3675 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3676 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3677 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3678 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3679 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3680 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3681 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3682 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3683 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3684 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3685 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3686 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3687 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3689 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3690 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3691 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3692 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3693 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3697 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3699 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3700 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3701 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3702 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3703 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3704 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3705 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3706 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3707 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3708 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3709 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3710 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3711 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3712 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3713 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3715 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3716 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3717 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3718 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3719 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3720 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3721 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3722 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3723 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3724 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3726 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3727 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3728 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3729 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3730 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3732 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3734 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3735 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3737 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3738 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3739 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3740 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3741 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3742 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3744 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3747 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3748 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3749 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3750 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3751 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3752 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3753 test macros defined.
3755 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3757 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3758 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3759 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3760 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3761 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3762 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3765 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3766 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3767 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3768 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3771 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3772 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3773 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
3775 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3776 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3777 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3778 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
3780 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3781 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3782 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3783 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3784 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3785 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3786 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3789 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3790 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3791 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3792 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3793 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3794 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3795 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3796 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3797 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
3799 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3800 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3801 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3802 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3803 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
3804 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
3806 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3807 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3808 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3809 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
3813 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3815 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3816 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3817 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3818 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3819 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3820 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3821 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3822 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3823 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3824 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
3825 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3826 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3827 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3828 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3829 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
3830 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3831 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3832 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
3834 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3835 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3837 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3838 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3839 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
3840 extension which uses __block.
3842 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3843 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3844 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3845 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3846 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3848 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3849 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3850 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3851 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3854 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3855 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3856 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3857 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3858 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
3860 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3861 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3862 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3864 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3865 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3866 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3869 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3870 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3872 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
3873 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
3875 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3877 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3880 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
3882 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3884 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3885 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3886 for which the C library was built.
3888 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3889 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3890 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3891 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3892 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3893 in the following circumstances:
3895 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3897 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3898 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3900 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3901 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3903 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3904 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
3906 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3908 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3909 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3911 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
3913 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
3915 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
3917 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3918 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3919 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3920 disable some of those declarations.
3922 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
3923 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3924 that did nothing) has also been removed.
3926 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3927 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
3929 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3930 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3931 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3932 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3933 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3934 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3935 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3936 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3937 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3938 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3939 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3940 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3941 require recompilation.
3945 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3947 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
3948 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3949 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
3950 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3951 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3952 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3953 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3954 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3955 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3956 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3957 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3958 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3959 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3962 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3963 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3964 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3965 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3966 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3967 understands and accepts the risks.
3969 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3972 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3973 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
3975 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3976 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3977 destructor calls to glibc.
3979 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3982 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3983 non-x86 architectures.
3985 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3987 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3989 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3992 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3994 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3997 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3998 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4000 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4002 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4003 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4005 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4006 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4008 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4009 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4010 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4012 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4013 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4014 attributes of a process.
4016 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4017 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4018 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4019 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4022 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4023 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4025 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4029 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4031 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4032 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4033 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4034 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4035 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4036 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4037 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4038 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4039 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4040 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4041 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4042 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4043 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4044 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4045 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4047 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4049 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4050 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4052 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4053 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4055 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4057 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4058 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4060 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4062 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4063 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4064 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4066 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4067 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4069 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4070 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4072 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4073 can be used with is 2.6.16.
4075 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4076 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4078 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4079 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
4080 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4081 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
4083 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4084 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4086 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
4087 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
4090 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4091 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4092 information in --help and --version output.
4094 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4095 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4096 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4098 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4099 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4100 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4101 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4102 when the mode is enabled.
4104 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4105 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4106 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4107 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4108 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4109 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4110 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
4112 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4117 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4119 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4120 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4121 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4122 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4123 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4124 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4125 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4126 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4127 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4128 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4129 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4130 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4131 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4132 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4133 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4134 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4135 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4136 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4137 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4138 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4139 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4140 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4143 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4144 configuring glibc with:
4145 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
4146 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
4147 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4151 + define static_assert
4153 + do not declare gets
4155 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4157 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4158 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4159 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4162 + timespec_get added
4164 + uchar.h support added
4166 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4168 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4170 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
4172 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
4174 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4175 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4177 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4178 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4180 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4181 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4182 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4183 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4184 existing applications.
4186 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
4187 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4190 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4191 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4192 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4194 * New locales: mag_IN
4196 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4197 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4198 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4199 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4200 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
4202 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4204 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4207 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4209 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4210 without a previously built glibc.
4212 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4213 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4215 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4216 now supported for ARM processors.
4218 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4219 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4220 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4222 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
4224 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4225 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4226 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4227 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
4229 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4230 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4231 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4232 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4234 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4235 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4236 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4237 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4238 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4240 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4241 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4242 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4243 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
4247 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4249 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4250 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4251 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4252 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4253 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4254 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4255 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
4257 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4258 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4260 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4261 and support for initgroups lookups.
4262 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4264 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4265 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4267 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4268 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4270 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4271 on x86-32 and x86-64.
4272 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4274 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
4275 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4277 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4278 for x86-64 and x86-32.
4279 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4281 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4282 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4284 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4285 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4287 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4288 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4290 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4291 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4293 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4294 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4296 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4297 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4299 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
4301 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4302 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4304 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4305 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
4307 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
4311 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4313 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
4314 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
4315 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
4316 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4317 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4318 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4319 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4320 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4321 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4322 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4324 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4325 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4326 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
4327 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
4329 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
4330 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4331 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
4332 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4334 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
4335 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
4337 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
4338 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
4340 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
4342 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4343 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4345 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4346 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4347 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4348 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
4352 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4354 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4355 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4356 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4357 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4360 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
4362 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
4364 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4365 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
4366 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4370 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4372 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4373 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4374 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4375 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
4376 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4377 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4378 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
4379 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
4381 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
4383 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4385 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4387 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4388 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4389 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4391 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4392 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4393 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4394 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4395 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4397 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
4401 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4403 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4404 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4405 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4406 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4407 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4408 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4410 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4412 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4414 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
4415 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4417 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4418 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4420 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4422 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
4423 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
4424 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
4425 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4427 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
4428 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4430 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4432 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4434 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4435 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4437 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4438 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4440 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4441 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4443 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4444 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4445 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4446 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4447 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4448 necessity is every process again.
4449 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4451 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4452 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4454 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4455 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4457 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4458 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4459 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4461 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
4465 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4467 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4468 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4469 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4470 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4471 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4473 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
4474 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4476 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
4477 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4479 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
4480 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
4482 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4485 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
4486 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4488 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4491 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4492 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4494 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4495 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4497 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4498 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4499 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4501 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
4503 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
4504 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4506 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4507 and extend existing format specifiers.
4508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4510 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4511 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4513 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4514 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4515 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4516 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4517 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4518 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4522 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4524 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4525 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4526 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4527 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4528 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4530 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
4531 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4533 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4534 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
4536 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4537 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4539 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4540 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4541 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4543 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4544 Implemented by Eric Blake.
4546 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
4548 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
4549 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4551 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4552 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4553 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4554 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4556 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4557 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4559 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4561 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4563 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4567 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4569 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4570 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4571 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4572 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4573 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4574 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4575 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4577 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4579 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4581 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4582 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4584 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4586 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4587 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4589 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4590 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4592 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4593 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4594 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4596 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4597 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4599 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4600 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4602 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4603 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4605 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4606 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4610 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4612 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4613 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4614 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4615 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4616 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4618 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4619 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4621 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4623 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4624 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4625 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4627 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4628 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4630 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4631 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4633 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4635 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4636 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4638 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4639 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4641 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4642 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4644 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4646 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4647 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4649 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4650 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4653 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4654 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4658 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4660 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4661 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4662 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4663 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4664 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4665 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4666 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4669 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4671 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4673 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4677 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4679 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4680 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4681 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4682 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4683 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4684 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4685 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4686 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4687 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4689 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4690 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4691 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4693 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4694 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4696 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4698 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4700 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4701 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4702 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4703 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4704 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4706 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4707 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4708 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4709 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4711 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4714 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4716 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4719 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4721 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4722 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4726 * More overflow detection functions.
4728 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4729 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4731 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4732 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4733 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4734 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4735 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4736 by Masahide Washizawa.
4738 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4739 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4741 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4742 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4743 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4744 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4746 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4747 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4749 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4751 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4752 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4753 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4755 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4756 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4758 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4759 for compatibility with some other systems.
4761 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4765 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4767 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4768 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4769 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4770 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4771 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4772 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4774 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4776 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4778 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
4782 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4784 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4785 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4786 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4787 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4789 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4793 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4794 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4796 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4797 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4798 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4800 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4801 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4803 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
4805 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4807 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4808 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4811 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4812 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
4813 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4815 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
4816 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4818 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4819 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4820 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4821 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4823 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4824 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4825 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
4826 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4828 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4829 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4830 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4831 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4832 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
4836 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4837 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4839 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4840 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
4842 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
4843 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4845 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4846 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4848 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4851 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
4854 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4859 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4860 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4861 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4862 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4863 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4864 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4865 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4866 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4867 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4869 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4870 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4871 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4873 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
4875 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4876 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
4878 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4879 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4881 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
4883 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4884 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
4886 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4887 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4888 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4889 of weak definition in ld.so.
4891 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4892 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4894 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4895 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
4899 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4902 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4903 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
4905 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
4906 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
4908 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4909 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
4911 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
4912 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4913 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4915 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4916 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
4918 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
4919 implementation of regex.
4921 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4924 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4925 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
4927 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4928 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4929 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
4931 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
4932 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
4934 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4935 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4936 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
4938 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4939 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4941 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4942 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4945 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
4949 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4950 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4952 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4953 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
4957 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4958 128-bit long double format.
4960 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4961 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
4963 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
4965 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4967 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4970 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4971 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
4973 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
4977 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
4978 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
4980 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4981 support Unicode 3.1.
4983 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4984 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
4986 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
4988 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
4989 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4990 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4992 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4993 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4995 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4996 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
4998 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5002 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5003 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5004 in float, double, and long double format.
5006 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5007 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5008 128-bit long double format.
5010 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5011 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5012 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5013 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5015 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5016 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5017 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5019 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5020 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5022 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5023 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5025 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5026 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5027 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5029 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5030 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5032 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5033 of functions for Linux/x86.
5035 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5039 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5040 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5041 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5042 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5043 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5044 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5047 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5048 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5050 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5051 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5052 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5053 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5055 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5060 only lists the names of the supported locales
5064 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5065 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5069 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5070 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5071 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5072 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5073 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5075 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5077 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5079 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
5081 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5082 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5083 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
5085 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5086 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5088 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5089 changed from the default "C" locale.
5091 * The usual bug fixes.
5095 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5096 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5099 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5101 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
5103 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5104 obviously requires a database library being available.
5106 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5108 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
5110 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5111 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5113 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5115 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5116 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5119 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5120 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5121 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
5123 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
5124 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5126 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5127 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5128 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5130 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5131 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5132 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5133 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5135 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5136 structures for the wide character tables.
5138 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5140 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
5142 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5144 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5147 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5149 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5151 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5153 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5155 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5157 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5158 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5159 implemented for Linux.
5161 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5162 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5163 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5166 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5169 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
5183 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5185 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5187 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
5189 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5191 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
5193 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
5195 * Update timezone data files.
5197 * lots of charmaps corrections
5199 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
5204 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5205 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5206 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5207 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5208 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5209 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5211 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
5212 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5214 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
5217 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5218 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
5220 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
5222 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
5225 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
5227 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5228 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
5230 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5233 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
5234 functions from ISO C 9X.
5236 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5237 real valued functions.
5239 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
5241 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5243 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
5245 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
5247 * Optimized string functions have been added.
5249 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
5251 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5253 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5254 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5256 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5257 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5261 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
5263 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
5265 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
5267 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5269 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5271 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
5273 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5274 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
5277 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5278 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
5280 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
5282 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
5284 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5285 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5287 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
5289 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5292 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5293 latest draft standards.
5295 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5297 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5298 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5299 addseverity NEW: Unix98
5300 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
5301 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5302 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5303 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5304 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5305 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5306 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5307 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5308 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5309 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5310 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
5311 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5312 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5313 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
5314 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5315 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5316 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5318 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5319 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5320 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5321 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5322 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5329 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5330 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5331 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5332 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5333 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5335 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5336 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5337 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5338 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5339 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5340 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5344 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5345 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5351 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5352 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5353 clearerr_locked REMOVED
5354 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5356 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5357 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5358 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5368 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5369 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5371 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5372 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5377 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5378 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5381 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5382 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5386 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5387 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5389 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5390 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5391 endutxent NEW: Unix98
5393 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5394 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5398 fattach NEW: STREAMS
5399 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5403 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5404 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5405 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5406 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5407 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5409 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5410 ferror_locked REMOVED
5411 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5412 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5413 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5414 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5415 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5416 fflush_locked REMOVED
5420 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5421 fileno_locked REMOVED
5433 fputc_locked REMOVED
5434 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5435 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5440 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5444 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5446 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5447 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5451 getchar_locked REMOVED
5453 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5454 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5456 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
5457 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
5458 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5459 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5460 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5461 getutxent NEW: Unix98
5462 getutxid NEW: Unix98
5463 getutxline NEW: Unix98
5464 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5465 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5466 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5467 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5468 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5469 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5471 iconv_close NEW: iconv
5472 iconv_open NEW: iconv
5473 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5474 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5475 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5476 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5477 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5478 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5479 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5480 isastream NEW: STREAMS
5481 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
5482 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5483 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5484 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5485 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5486 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5487 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5488 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5489 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5490 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
5491 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5492 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5493 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5494 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5495 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5496 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5501 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5502 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5503 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5504 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5505 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5507 makecontext NEW: Unix98
5508 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5511 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5515 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5516 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5517 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5518 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5519 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
5520 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5521 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5522 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
5526 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
5528 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5529 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5532 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5533 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5534 profil_counter REMOVED
5535 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5536 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5537 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5538 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5540 putchar_locked REMOVED
5541 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5543 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5544 pututxline NEW: Unix98
5548 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5549 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5550 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5551 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5553 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5554 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5556 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5557 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5558 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5560 sendfile NEW: kernel
5561 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5562 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5563 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5565 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5566 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5567 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5568 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5569 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5570 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5571 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5572 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5573 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5577 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5578 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5579 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5580 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5581 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5582 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5583 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5584 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5585 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5586 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5587 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5588 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5589 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5593 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5594 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5596 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5597 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5598 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5599 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5600 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5601 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5603 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5604 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5605 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5606 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5607 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5608 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5609 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5611 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5612 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5613 write_profiling REMOVED
5614 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5615 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5616 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5617 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5618 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5619 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5620 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5621 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5622 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5623 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5624 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5625 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5626 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5627 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5628 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5629 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5640 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5642 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5644 * rewrite of cbrt function
5646 * update of timezone data
5660 * add atoll function
5662 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5664 * fix math functions
5668 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5670 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5672 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5673 the ELF dynamic loader.
5675 * support for parallel builds is improved
5679 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5680 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5683 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5684 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5685 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5686 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5687 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5688 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5689 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5690 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5691 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5692 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5693 files in the ELF format.
5695 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5696 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5698 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5699 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5700 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5701 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5702 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5703 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5704 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5705 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5706 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5707 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5708 about dynamically linked binaries.
5710 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5711 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5712 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5713 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5714 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5716 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5717 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5718 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5719 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5720 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5722 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5724 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5725 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5726 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5727 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5728 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5729 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5730 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5731 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5732 NSS services available.
5734 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5735 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5736 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5738 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5739 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5740 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5742 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5743 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5744 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5745 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5747 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5748 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5749 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5751 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5752 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5753 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5755 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5756 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5758 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5759 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5760 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5761 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5763 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5764 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5765 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5767 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5768 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5769 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5770 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5771 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5772 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
5773 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
5774 the header file <printf.h> for details.
5776 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5777 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5778 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5779 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5780 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5781 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5782 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
5784 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5785 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5786 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5787 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5788 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5789 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5791 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5792 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5794 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5795 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5796 NSS scheme used in glibc.
5798 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5800 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5801 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5802 their use is discouraged.
5804 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5805 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
5807 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5808 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
5810 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5811 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5813 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5816 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5817 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
5818 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5819 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5820 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
5822 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5823 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5824 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5825 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
5827 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5828 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5830 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5831 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5832 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5833 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5836 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5837 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5839 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5840 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5842 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
5843 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
5844 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5845 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
5847 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5849 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5850 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5851 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5853 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5854 for arithmetic and string handling.
5856 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
5857 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5858 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5859 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5861 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5862 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5863 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5864 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5865 programs already written to use it.)
5867 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5870 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5873 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5874 a given effective group ID.
5876 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5877 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5878 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5879 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5881 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
5882 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
5883 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5884 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5885 doing the same thing.
5887 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5888 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5890 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
5891 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
5893 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5895 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5896 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5897 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
5898 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
5899 `-ldb' to get these functions.
5901 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5902 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
5904 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
5905 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5906 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5909 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5911 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5912 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5915 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5916 and writing the utmp file.
5918 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5921 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5922 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5923 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5925 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5926 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5928 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5929 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5932 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5933 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5934 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5935 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5937 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5938 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5939 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5941 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5942 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5943 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5946 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5949 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5952 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5954 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5955 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5956 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
5960 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5962 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5963 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5965 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5966 want to put themselves in the background.
5968 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5969 run without an operating system.
5971 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5972 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5974 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5975 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5977 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5979 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5980 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5983 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5986 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5987 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5991 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5992 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5993 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5995 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5996 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5998 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5999 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6001 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6003 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6005 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6008 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6009 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6010 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6012 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6014 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6015 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6016 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6018 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6019 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6020 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6021 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6022 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6025 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6026 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6027 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6028 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6029 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6032 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6033 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6037 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6038 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6040 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6041 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6042 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6044 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6045 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6046 address of the last character written.
6048 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6049 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6051 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6052 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6054 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6055 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6056 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6057 you dereference this pointer.
6059 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6060 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6062 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6063 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6064 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6065 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6067 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6068 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6069 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6070 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6074 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6075 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6076 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6077 in Emacs or the `info' program.
6078 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
6080 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6082 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6084 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6085 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6087 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6088 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6090 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6091 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6093 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6094 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6095 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6096 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6097 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6099 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6100 to the error code in `errno'.
6102 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6103 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6104 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6107 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6108 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6109 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6111 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6112 uniquely-named temporary file.
6116 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6117 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6118 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6120 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6123 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6124 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6126 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6130 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6131 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6132 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6133 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6135 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6136 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6137 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6139 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6140 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6142 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6143 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6144 made itself into a shared library.
6146 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6147 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6149 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6150 with limited length.
6152 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6154 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6156 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6158 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6159 function for traversing a directory tree.
6161 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6162 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6163 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6164 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6166 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6167 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6169 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6171 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6172 things to your strings.
6174 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6176 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6177 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6178 supporting those systems.
6180 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6181 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6182 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6183 configuration files.
6185 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6186 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6188 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
6189 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6192 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6193 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6194 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6195 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6196 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6197 required storage is not available.
6199 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6200 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
6202 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6203 latest files released from Berkeley.
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