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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/timeb.h> header and the ftime function have been
41 removed. To support old binaries, the ftime function continue to exist
42 as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it). All
43 programs should use gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
45 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
46 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
47 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
50 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
52 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
53 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
54 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
55 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
56 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
57 perform any adjustments.
59 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
60 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
61 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
62 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
64 Security related changes:
66 [Add security related changes here]
68 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
70 [The release manager will add the list generated by
71 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
78 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
79 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
80 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
82 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
84 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
85 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
86 Three ABIs are supported:
92 The arc* ABI is little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
93 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
95 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
96 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
98 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
99 using the -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
100 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
103 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
104 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
105 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
107 * On Linux, functions the pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
108 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
109 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
111 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
112 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
113 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
114 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
117 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
118 sigabbrev_np returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for SIGHUP)
119 while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number (e.g
120 "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
121 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
122 NULL for an invalid signal number.
124 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
125 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
127 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
128 strerroname_np returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL) while
129 strerrordesc_np returns string describing error number
130 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
131 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
132 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
134 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
135 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
137 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
138 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
139 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
140 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
141 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
142 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
143 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
144 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
145 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
146 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
147 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
150 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
152 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
153 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
154 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
155 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
156 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
157 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
158 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
160 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
161 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
162 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
163 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
164 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
165 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
166 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
167 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depended on libnsl
168 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
170 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
171 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
172 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
173 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
174 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
176 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
177 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
178 was not declared in any header file.
180 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
181 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
182 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
183 sigaction functions instead.
185 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
186 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
188 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
189 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
190 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
191 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
194 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
195 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
196 have been removed from from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
197 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
198 strerror or strerror_r instead.
200 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
201 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
202 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
203 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
205 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
206 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
207 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
208 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
209 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
210 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
211 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
213 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
214 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
215 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
216 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
217 flavor of secure RPC.)
219 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
220 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
221 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
222 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
223 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
224 object, to enable the hooks.
226 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
227 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
228 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
231 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
233 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
234 long double redirects.
236 Security related changes:
238 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
239 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
240 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
242 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
243 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
244 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
246 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
247 expanding ~user has been fixed.
249 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
250 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
251 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
254 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
256 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
257 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
258 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
259 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
260 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
261 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
262 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
263 filtee has constructor
264 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
265 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
266 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
267 character entities for infinity & pi
268 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
269 segfaults in applications
270 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
271 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
272 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
273 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
274 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
275 function with -mlong-double-64
276 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
278 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
280 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
281 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
282 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
283 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
284 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
285 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
287 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
288 dynamically loaded dsos
289 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
290 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
292 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
293 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
294 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
295 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
296 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
297 stale configuration forever
298 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
300 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
302 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
303 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
305 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
306 on 32 bit and old kernel
307 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
308 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
310 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
311 amount of sigset_t bytes
312 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
314 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
315 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
316 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
317 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
318 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
319 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
320 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
321 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
322 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
323 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
325 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
326 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
327 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
328 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
329 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
330 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
331 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
333 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
334 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
336 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
337 exiting detached thread
338 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
340 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
342 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
343 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
344 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
345 dependencies in audit mode
346 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
347 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
348 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
349 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
350 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
352 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
353 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
355 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
356 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
358 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
359 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
360 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
361 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
362 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
363 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
371 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
372 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
373 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
374 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
375 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
376 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
378 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
379 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
380 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
381 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
383 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
384 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
385 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
387 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
389 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
390 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
391 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
392 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
393 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
394 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
395 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
396 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
398 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
400 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
401 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
402 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
403 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
404 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
405 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
407 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
408 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
409 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
411 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
412 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
413 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
414 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
416 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
417 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
418 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
419 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
420 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
421 made this no longer practical.
423 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
424 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
425 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
426 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
429 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
430 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
431 with the current time, use the localtime function.
433 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
434 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
435 using clock_gettime instead.
437 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
438 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
439 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
440 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
441 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
443 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
444 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
445 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
446 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
448 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
449 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
450 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
451 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
452 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
453 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
455 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
456 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
457 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
458 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
461 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
462 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
463 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
465 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
468 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
469 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
470 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
471 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
472 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
474 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
475 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
476 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
477 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
478 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
479 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
480 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
481 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
483 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
484 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
486 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
487 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
488 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
489 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
490 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
491 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
493 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
495 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
496 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
497 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
499 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
500 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
501 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
503 Security related changes:
505 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
506 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
508 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
509 environment variable during program execution after a security
510 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
511 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
512 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
514 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
516 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
517 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
518 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
519 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
520 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
521 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
522 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
523 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
525 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
526 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
527 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
528 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
529 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
530 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
531 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
532 constructors/destructors is not fatal
533 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
534 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
536 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
538 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
539 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
540 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
541 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
542 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
543 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
544 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
546 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
548 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
549 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
550 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
551 (stringop-overflow error)
552 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
553 functions other can lead to crashes
554 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
555 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
557 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
558 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
559 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
560 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
561 still can fail with an error
562 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
563 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
564 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
565 initialized correctly
566 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
568 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
570 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
571 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
572 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
574 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
576 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
578 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
580 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
581 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
582 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
584 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
585 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
587 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
588 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
589 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
590 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
591 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
592 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
599 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
600 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
601 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
603 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
604 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
606 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
607 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
608 to the callback function.
610 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
612 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
613 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
616 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
618 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
619 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
620 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
621 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
622 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
624 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
625 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
626 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
627 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
628 link time reference, is gone.
630 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
631 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
632 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
633 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
634 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
635 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
636 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
637 the clock choice at initialization time).
639 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
640 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
641 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
643 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
645 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
646 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
647 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
648 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
649 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
650 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
651 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
652 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
653 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
655 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
656 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
657 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
658 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
661 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
662 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
664 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
665 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
667 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
668 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
670 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
673 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
674 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
675 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
677 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
678 header have been removed.
680 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
681 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
682 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
683 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
685 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
687 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
689 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
690 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
692 Security related changes:
694 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
695 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
696 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
697 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
698 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
699 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
700 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
702 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
703 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
704 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
706 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
708 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
709 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
710 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
711 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
712 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
713 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
714 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
715 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
716 invalid input drops valid char
717 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
718 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
719 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
720 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
721 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
723 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
724 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
725 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
726 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
728 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
729 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
730 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
731 for long double = double
732 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
734 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
735 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
736 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
738 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
739 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
741 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
742 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
743 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
744 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
745 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
746 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
747 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
748 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
749 not the default "nor"
750 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
751 false positives, change to modern flexible array
752 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
753 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
755 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
756 unnecessary librt dependencies
757 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
758 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
759 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
760 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
762 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
763 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
765 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
766 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
768 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
769 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
770 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
771 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
773 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
774 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
775 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
776 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
778 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
780 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
781 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
783 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
784 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
785 kernels and break testing
786 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
787 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
788 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
789 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
790 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
791 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
792 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
794 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
795 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
797 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
799 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
800 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
801 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
802 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
803 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
804 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
805 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
806 always implemented in the same library
807 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
808 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
809 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
817 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
818 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
820 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
821 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
822 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
823 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
824 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
827 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
829 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
830 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
832 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
833 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
834 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
835 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
836 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
837 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
838 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
839 process actually does not use HTM).
841 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
842 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
843 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
844 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
845 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
848 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
849 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
850 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
851 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
852 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
854 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
855 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
857 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
858 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
860 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
861 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
862 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
863 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
864 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
865 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
866 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
868 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
869 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
870 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
872 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
874 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
875 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
877 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
878 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
879 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
880 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
882 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
883 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
884 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
885 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
888 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
889 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
890 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
891 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
892 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
893 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
895 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
896 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
897 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
898 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
899 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
901 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
902 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
903 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
905 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
907 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
909 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
910 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
912 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
913 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
915 Security related changes:
917 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
918 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
919 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
921 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
922 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
923 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
924 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
927 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
928 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
929 or command injection issues in applications.
931 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
933 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
934 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
935 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
937 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
938 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
939 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
941 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
942 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
943 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
944 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
945 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
946 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
947 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
948 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
949 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
950 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
951 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
952 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
953 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
954 pointer argument is non-NULL
955 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
956 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
957 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
958 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
959 multithreads call popen
960 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
961 and pthread_create fails.
962 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
963 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
965 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
966 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
967 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
969 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
971 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
973 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
974 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
976 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
977 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
978 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
979 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
980 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
981 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
982 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
984 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
985 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
986 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
988 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
989 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
990 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
991 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
993 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
995 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
996 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
997 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
998 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1000 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1002 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1003 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1004 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1006 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1007 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1008 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1009 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1010 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1011 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1013 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1014 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1015 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1016 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1017 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1018 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1019 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1020 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1021 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1022 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1023 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1024 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1025 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1026 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1028 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1029 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1030 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1031 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1032 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1034 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1035 nearest rounding mode
1036 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1037 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1038 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1039 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1040 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1041 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1042 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1043 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1044 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1046 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1047 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1049 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1050 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1051 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1052 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1054 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1056 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1058 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1060 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1061 answers will be rejected)
1062 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1069 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1070 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1071 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1072 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1073 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1074 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1075 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1076 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1077 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1078 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1079 archive or binary locales.
1081 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1082 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1083 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1084 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1085 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1086 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1087 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1088 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
1089 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1090 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1091 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1094 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1095 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1096 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1097 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1098 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1099 field) to indicate such support is required.
1101 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1102 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1103 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1105 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1106 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1108 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1109 fMxaddfNx functions.
1111 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1112 fMxsubfNx functions.
1114 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1115 fMxmulfNx functions.
1117 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1118 fMxdivfNx functions.
1120 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
1121 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
1122 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
1123 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1126 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
1127 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
1129 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1132 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1133 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1134 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1135 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1136 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1137 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1138 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1139 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1141 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1142 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1143 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1144 the fstatat64 function.
1146 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1147 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1148 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1149 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1150 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1151 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1152 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1153 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1154 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1156 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1157 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1158 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1159 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1160 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1161 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1162 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1163 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1164 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1165 results in a load failure now.
1167 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1168 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1171 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1172 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1174 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1175 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1177 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1179 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1180 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1182 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1184 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1186 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1188 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1189 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1190 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1192 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1193 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1194 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1195 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1196 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1197 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1199 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1200 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1201 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1202 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1203 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1204 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1207 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1208 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1209 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1210 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1211 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1212 further explanation.
1214 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1215 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1216 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
1218 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1220 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1221 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1222 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1224 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1225 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1226 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1227 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1229 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1230 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1231 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1232 for this function instead.
1234 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1235 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1236 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1238 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1239 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1240 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1241 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1243 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1244 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1245 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1246 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1247 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1249 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1250 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1251 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1252 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1253 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1254 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1257 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1258 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1259 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1262 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1263 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1264 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1266 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1267 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1268 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1269 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1270 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1271 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1273 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1274 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1275 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1276 behavior in a future release.
1278 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1280 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
1282 Security related changes:
1284 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1285 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1286 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1287 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
1289 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1290 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1292 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1293 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1296 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1297 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1298 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1300 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1302 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1303 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1304 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1305 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1306 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1307 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1308 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1309 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1310 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1312 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1313 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1314 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1315 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1316 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1318 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1320 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1321 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1322 scope with -O1 and higher
1323 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1324 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1325 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1326 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1327 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1328 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1329 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1330 horrible machine code)
1331 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1333 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1334 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1336 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1337 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1339 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1340 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1341 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1342 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1343 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1345 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1346 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1347 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1348 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1349 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1351 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1352 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1353 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1355 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1356 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1357 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1358 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1359 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1360 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1361 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1362 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1363 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1364 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1365 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1366 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1367 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1369 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1371 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1372 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1373 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1374 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1375 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1376 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1377 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1378 for Spanish with CLDR
1379 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1380 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1381 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1382 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1383 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1384 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1386 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1388 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1389 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1390 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1391 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1393 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1394 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1395 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1396 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1397 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1398 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1399 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1400 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1401 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1402 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1403 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1404 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1405 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1406 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1407 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1408 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1409 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1411 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1412 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1414 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1415 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1416 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1417 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1418 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1419 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1421 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1423 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1424 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1425 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1426 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1427 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1428 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1429 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1430 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1431 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1432 and libc build with -Os)
1433 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1434 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1435 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1436 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1437 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1438 that changes /etc/passwd
1439 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1441 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1442 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1443 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1445 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1446 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1447 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1448 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1449 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1451 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1452 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1454 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1455 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1456 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1457 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1459 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1460 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1461 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1462 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1464 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1466 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1468 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1470 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1472 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1473 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1474 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1475 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1476 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1477 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1478 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1479 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1481 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
1488 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1489 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
1490 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
1491 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1492 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1493 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1494 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
1495 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1496 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
1498 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
1499 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1502 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1504 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
1506 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1507 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1508 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1509 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1510 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1511 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1512 from a security and performance perspective.
1514 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1515 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1516 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1517 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1519 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
1520 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1521 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1522 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
1523 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1525 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
1526 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
1527 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1528 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1531 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1532 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1533 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
1535 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
1537 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1538 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1541 * The copy_file_range function was added.
1543 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1545 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1546 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1547 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1549 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1550 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1551 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1552 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1553 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1554 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1555 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1557 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1558 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1559 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1560 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1561 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1562 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1563 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1565 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1566 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1567 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1568 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1571 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1572 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1573 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1574 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1576 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1577 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1578 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1580 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1581 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1582 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1584 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1585 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1586 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1592 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1594 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1595 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1596 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1597 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1598 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1599 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1600 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1601 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1602 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1605 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1606 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1607 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1609 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1610 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1611 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1612 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1613 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1614 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1615 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1616 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1617 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1618 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1619 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1620 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1621 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1622 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1623 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1624 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1625 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1626 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1627 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1628 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1629 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1630 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1631 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1632 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1633 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1634 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1636 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1637 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1639 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1640 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1641 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1642 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1643 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1644 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1645 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1647 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1648 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1649 exp10l for these functions instead.
1651 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1652 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1653 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1655 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1656 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1659 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1660 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1661 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1662 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1664 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1665 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1667 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1668 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1670 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1673 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1675 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1676 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1677 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1680 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1681 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1682 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1683 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1684 use, but predates the bits convention.
1686 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1688 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1691 Security related changes:
1693 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1694 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1695 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1696 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1699 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1700 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1701 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1702 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1704 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1705 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1706 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1709 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1710 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1711 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1713 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1714 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1715 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1716 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1718 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1719 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1720 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1723 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1724 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1725 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1726 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1727 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1729 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1730 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1733 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1734 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1735 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1737 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1738 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1739 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1741 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1742 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1743 small, instead of NULL.
1745 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1747 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1748 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1749 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1751 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1752 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1753 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1755 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1756 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1757 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1758 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1759 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1760 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1761 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1762 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1763 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1765 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1766 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1767 width Latin characters
1768 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1769 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1770 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1772 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1773 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1775 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1776 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1777 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1778 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1779 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1781 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1782 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1783 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1784 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1785 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1786 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1787 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1788 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1789 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1790 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1792 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1793 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1794 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1795 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1796 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1797 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1798 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1799 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1801 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1802 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1804 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1805 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1807 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1808 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1809 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1810 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1811 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1812 __regcall calling convention
1813 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1814 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1815 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1816 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1817 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1818 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1819 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1820 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1821 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1822 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1823 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1824 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1825 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1827 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1829 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1831 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1832 consistency check failures
1833 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1834 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1835 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1836 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1838 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1840 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1841 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1842 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1843 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1844 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1845 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1846 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1847 on memory allocation failure
1848 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1849 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1851 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1853 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1854 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1855 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1856 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1857 instead of EAI_NODATA
1858 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1859 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1860 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1861 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1863 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1864 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1865 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1866 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1867 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1868 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1869 allocation in syscall loops)
1870 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1871 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1872 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1873 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1874 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1875 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1876 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1877 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1878 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1880 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1881 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1882 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1884 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1885 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1887 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1889 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1890 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1891 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1892 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1893 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1894 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1895 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1896 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1897 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1898 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1899 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1900 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1901 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1902 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1903 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1904 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1905 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1906 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1908 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1910 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1911 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1913 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1914 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1915 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1916 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1918 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1919 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1920 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1921 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1922 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1923 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1924 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1925 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1926 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1927 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1928 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1930 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1931 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1932 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1933 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1934 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1935 the svid compat wrapper
1936 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1937 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1938 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1939 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1940 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1941 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1943 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1944 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1946 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1947 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1948 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1949 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1950 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1951 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1953 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1954 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1955 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1956 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1958 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1959 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1961 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1962 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1963 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1964 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1965 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1966 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1967 inside the ASCII printable range
1968 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1970 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1971 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1972 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1974 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1975 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1977 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1978 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1979 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1981 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1982 networking interface
1983 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1984 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1985 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1986 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1987 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1988 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1989 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1990 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1991 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1993 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1994 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1995 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1996 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1997 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1998 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1999 same as for Croatian
2000 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2001 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2002 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2004 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2006 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2007 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2008 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2009 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2010 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2012 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2013 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2014 modified in case of success
2015 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2016 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2018 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2020 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2021 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2022 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2023 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2024 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2025 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2026 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2027 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2029 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2030 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2031 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2032 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2033 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2034 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2035 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2036 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2037 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2039 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2040 elision and tunables
2041 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2043 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2044 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2045 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2047 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2048 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2050 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2051 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2052 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2053 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2054 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2055 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2056 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2057 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2058 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2065 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2066 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2067 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2068 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2069 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2070 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2071 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2073 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2074 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
2075 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2076 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2077 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2078 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2079 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
2081 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2082 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2085 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
2087 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2088 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2089 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
2091 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2092 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2093 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2094 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2095 object are still limited to six search domains.
2097 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2098 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2099 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
2101 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2102 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
2104 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2105 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2106 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2107 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
2109 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2110 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2111 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2112 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
2114 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2115 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2116 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2117 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2119 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2120 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2121 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
2123 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
2124 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2125 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2126 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2128 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
2129 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2130 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2131 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2132 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2134 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2135 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2136 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2137 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2138 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2139 interfaces should be used instead.
2141 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2143 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2144 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2145 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2146 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2147 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2148 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2149 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2150 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2152 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2155 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
2156 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2157 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2158 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2160 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2161 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2164 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2165 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2166 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
2167 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2168 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2170 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2171 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2172 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2173 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2175 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2176 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2177 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2178 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2180 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2181 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
2183 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2184 exported by accident.
2186 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2187 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2188 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2190 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2191 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2192 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2193 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2195 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2197 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2199 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2202 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2203 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2205 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2206 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2208 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2209 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2210 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2211 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2212 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2213 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2214 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2215 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2217 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2218 synced with the kernel:
2220 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2221 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2223 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2224 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2225 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2227 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2228 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2230 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2232 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2233 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2236 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
2238 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2239 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
2241 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2242 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2243 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2244 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2245 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
2247 Security related changes:
2249 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
2250 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2252 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2253 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2255 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2256 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2259 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2260 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
2262 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2264 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2265 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2266 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2268 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2270 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2271 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2272 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2274 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2275 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2276 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2277 x86 and other generic code
2278 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2279 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2281 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2282 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2283 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2284 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2285 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2286 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2287 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2289 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2290 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2291 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2292 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2294 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2295 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2297 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2299 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2300 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2301 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2303 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2304 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2305 failures consistently
2306 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2307 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2308 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2309 frame-pointer on i386
2310 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2312 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2313 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2314 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2315 generic c code is used
2316 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2317 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2319 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2321 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2322 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2324 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2325 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2326 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2327 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2328 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2329 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2330 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2331 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2332 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2333 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2335 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2337 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2338 new posix_spawn implementation
2339 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2340 leads to lower CPU frequency
2341 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2342 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2343 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2344 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2345 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2346 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2347 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2348 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2349 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2350 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2351 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2352 not support gethostbyname4_r
2353 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2355 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2357 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2358 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2359 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2360 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2361 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2362 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2363 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2365 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2366 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2367 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2368 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2369 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2370 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2371 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2372 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2373 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2374 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2375 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2376 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2378 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2379 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2380 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2381 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2382 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2383 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2384 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2385 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2387 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2388 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2389 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2390 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2391 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2392 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2393 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2394 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2395 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2396 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2397 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2398 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2399 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2400 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2401 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2402 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2403 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2404 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2405 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2406 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2407 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2409 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2410 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2411 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2412 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2413 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2415 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2416 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2418 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2419 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2421 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2422 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2424 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2425 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2426 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2427 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2429 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2430 leading to relocation crash
2431 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2432 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2433 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2434 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2435 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2436 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2437 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2438 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2439 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2441 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2443 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2444 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2445 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2446 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2447 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2448 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2449 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2450 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2452 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2454 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2456 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2457 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2458 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2459 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2460 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2461 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2462 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2463 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2464 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2465 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2466 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2467 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2468 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2469 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2470 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2471 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2472 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2473 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2474 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2475 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2476 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2477 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2478 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2479 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2480 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2481 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2482 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2484 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2485 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2486 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2487 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2488 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
2493 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2494 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2495 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2498 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2499 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2500 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
2503 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2504 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2505 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2508 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2509 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2510 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2511 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2512 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2513 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2514 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2517 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2518 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2521 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2522 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2523 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2525 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2526 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2527 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2528 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2531 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
2532 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2533 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
2535 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2536 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
2537 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2538 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2539 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2540 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2541 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2542 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2543 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2544 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2545 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2548 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2550 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2552 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2553 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2554 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2556 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2557 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2559 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2562 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2564 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2566 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2567 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2569 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2571 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2572 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2574 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2575 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2577 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2578 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2579 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2581 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2582 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2583 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2584 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2585 effects of the memory clear).
2587 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2588 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2589 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2590 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2592 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2593 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2594 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2595 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2596 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2597 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2599 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2602 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2603 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2604 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2605 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2606 as large as several megabytes.
2608 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2609 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2612 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2613 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2614 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2615 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2616 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2617 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2618 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2620 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2621 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2622 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2623 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2625 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2626 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2627 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2630 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2631 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2632 They were already unimplemented.
2634 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2635 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2636 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2637 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2639 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2640 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2641 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2642 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2643 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2645 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2646 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2647 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2648 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2649 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2651 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2652 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2653 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2654 did not reflect that.
2656 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2657 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2658 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2659 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2660 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2661 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2662 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2665 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2666 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2667 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2668 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2670 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2671 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2672 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2673 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2675 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2676 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2679 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2680 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2683 Security related changes:
2685 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2686 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2687 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2688 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2689 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2691 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2692 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2693 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2694 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2697 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2699 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2700 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2702 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2703 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2704 before it started waiting
2705 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2706 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2707 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2708 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2710 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2711 library linked with pthread
2712 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2713 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2714 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2715 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2716 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2717 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2718 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2720 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2722 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2723 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2724 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2725 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2726 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2727 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2728 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2729 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2730 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2732 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2733 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2734 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2735 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2736 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2737 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2738 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2739 causes a segmentation fault
2740 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2742 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2743 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2745 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2747 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2748 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2749 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2751 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2752 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2754 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2755 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2756 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2757 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2758 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2759 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2760 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2761 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2763 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2764 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2765 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2767 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2769 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2771 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2772 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2773 cause transition penalty
2774 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2775 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2776 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2777 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2778 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2780 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2782 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2783 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2784 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2785 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2786 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2787 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2789 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2791 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2792 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2793 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2794 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2795 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2796 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2797 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2798 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2799 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2800 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2801 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2802 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2803 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2804 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2806 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2807 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2808 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2809 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2810 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2811 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2812 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2813 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2814 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2815 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2816 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2817 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2818 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2819 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2820 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2821 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2822 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2823 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2825 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2826 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2827 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2828 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2829 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2831 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2832 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2833 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2834 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2835 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2836 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2837 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2839 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2840 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2841 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2842 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2843 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2847 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2848 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2849 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2850 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2851 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2854 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2855 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2856 been included in previous releases.
2858 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2859 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2861 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2862 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2863 instead of “union wait”.
2865 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2866 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2867 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2868 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2869 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2870 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2871 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2873 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2876 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2877 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2880 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2881 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2882 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2883 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2884 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2887 Security related changes:
2889 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2890 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2891 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2893 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2894 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2895 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2896 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
2898 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2899 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2900 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2902 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2903 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2904 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2906 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2907 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2908 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2909 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2911 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2913 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2914 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2916 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2917 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2918 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2919 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2920 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2921 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2922 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2923 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2925 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2926 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2927 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2928 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2929 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2930 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2932 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2934 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2935 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2936 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2937 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2938 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2939 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2940 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2941 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2942 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2943 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2944 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2946 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2947 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2948 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2949 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2950 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2951 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2953 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2954 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2956 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2957 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2958 Romanian locale data
2959 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2961 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2962 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2964 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2965 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2966 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2967 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2969 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2971 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2972 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2973 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2974 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2975 when using RTLD_NEXT
2976 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2977 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2978 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2979 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2980 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2981 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2982 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2983 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2984 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2986 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2987 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2988 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2989 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2991 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2993 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2995 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2996 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2997 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2998 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2999 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3000 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3002 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3003 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3005 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3006 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3008 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3010 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3012 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3013 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3014 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3015 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3016 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3017 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3018 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3019 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3020 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3021 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3022 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3023 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3024 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3025 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3027 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3029 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3030 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3031 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3032 response to getaddrinfo
3033 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3034 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3035 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3036 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3037 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3038 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3040 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3041 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3042 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3044 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3045 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3046 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3047 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3049 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3050 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3051 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3053 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3054 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3055 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3056 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3057 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3058 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3059 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3060 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3062 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3063 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3064 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3066 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3067 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3068 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3069 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3070 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3071 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3072 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3073 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3074 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3075 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3076 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3077 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3078 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3080 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3081 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3082 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3083 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3085 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3086 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3088 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3089 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3090 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3091 AS not supporting AVX512
3092 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3094 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3095 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3097 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3098 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3099 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3100 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3101 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3103 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3104 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3106 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3107 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3108 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3109 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3110 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3111 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3112 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3113 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3114 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3116 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3117 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3118 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3119 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3120 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3121 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3122 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3123 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3124 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3125 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3126 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3127 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3128 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3130 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3131 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3132 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3133 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3134 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3136 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3137 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3139 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3140 "invalid" exceptions
3141 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3142 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3143 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3144 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3145 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3146 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3147 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3148 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3149 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
3153 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3154 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3155 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3156 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3157 89, 16061, and 18568.
3159 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3160 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3161 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3162 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3163 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3164 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3165 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3167 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3168 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3169 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3171 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3172 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3173 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3174 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3175 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3176 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3177 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3179 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3180 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3181 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3182 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3183 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
3184 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
3185 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3188 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3189 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3190 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3191 independent of the GNU C Library.
3193 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3194 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
3196 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3197 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3198 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3199 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3200 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3203 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3204 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
3206 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3207 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3208 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3209 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3210 defining their own copy.
3212 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3213 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3214 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3216 Security related changes:
3218 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3219 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3221 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3222 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3223 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3224 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3227 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3228 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3230 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3231 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3233 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3234 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
3235 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
3237 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3238 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3239 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3240 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3241 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3242 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3243 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3244 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3245 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3246 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3247 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3248 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3249 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3251 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3253 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3254 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3255 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3256 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3257 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3258 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3260 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3261 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3262 overflow/underflow errors
3263 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3265 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3266 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3267 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3268 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3269 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3270 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3272 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3273 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3274 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3275 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3276 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3277 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3278 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3279 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3280 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3282 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3284 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3285 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3286 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3288 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3289 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3290 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3291 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3292 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3294 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3295 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3297 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3298 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3299 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3300 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3301 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3302 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3303 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3304 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3306 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3307 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3308 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3309 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3310 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3312 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3313 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3315 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3316 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3317 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3318 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3319 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3321 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3322 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3323 (related to lock elision)
3324 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3325 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3326 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3327 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3329 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3330 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3331 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3332 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3333 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3334 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3335 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3336 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3337 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3338 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3339 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3340 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3341 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3342 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3343 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3344 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3345 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3346 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3347 contains a vector instruction exception.
3348 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3349 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3351 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3352 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3353 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3354 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3355 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3357 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3359 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3360 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3362 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3363 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3364 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3365 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3366 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3368 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3369 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3370 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3371 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3372 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3373 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3374 statically too large
3375 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3376 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3377 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3378 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3379 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3380 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3381 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3382 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3383 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3385 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3386 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3387 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3388 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3389 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3390 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3391 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3393 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3394 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3395 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3396 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3398 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3399 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3400 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3401 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3402 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3403 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3405 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3406 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3407 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3408 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3409 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3410 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3412 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3413 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3414 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3415 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3416 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3417 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3418 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3419 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3421 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3422 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3423 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3424 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3425 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3426 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3427 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3428 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3429 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3431 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3433 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3434 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3435 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3437 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3438 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3439 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3440 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3441 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3442 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3443 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3444 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3445 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3446 pthread_setaffinity_np
3447 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3448 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3449 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3450 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3451 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3453 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3454 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3455 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3456 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3457 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3458 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3459 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3461 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3462 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3463 for C99-based standards
3464 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3465 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3467 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3468 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3469 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3471 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3472 "inexact" exceptions
3473 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3475 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3476 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3477 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3478 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3480 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3481 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3482 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3483 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3484 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3485 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3486 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3487 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3488 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3489 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3491 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3492 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3493 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3494 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3496 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3497 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3498 error on 32-bit architectures
3499 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3500 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3501 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3502 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3503 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3504 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3505 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3506 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3507 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3509 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3511 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3512 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3513 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3514 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3516 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
3520 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3522 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
3523 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3524 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3525 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3526 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3527 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3528 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3529 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3530 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3531 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3532 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3533 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3534 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3535 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3536 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3537 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3538 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3539 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
3540 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3541 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
3543 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3544 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3546 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3547 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3548 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3549 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3550 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3551 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
3553 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3554 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3555 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3556 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3557 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3559 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3560 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3561 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3563 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3564 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3565 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3568 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3569 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3570 condition in some applications.
3572 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3573 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3575 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3576 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3577 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3578 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3579 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3581 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3582 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3583 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3584 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3586 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3587 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3588 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3590 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3591 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3593 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3594 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3595 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3597 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3598 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3599 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3603 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3605 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3606 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3607 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3608 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3609 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3610 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3611 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3612 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3613 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3614 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3617 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3618 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3619 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3620 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3623 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3624 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3625 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3626 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3627 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3628 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3630 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3632 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3633 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3634 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3636 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3637 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3638 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3639 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3640 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3641 effects being visible outside transactions.
3643 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3644 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3646 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3648 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3649 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3650 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3651 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3652 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3654 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3655 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3657 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3658 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3661 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3662 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3663 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3665 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3666 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3668 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3670 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3671 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3672 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3673 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3675 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3676 with newer versions of bison.
3678 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3679 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3680 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3681 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3682 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3683 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3684 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3685 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3686 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3687 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3688 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3689 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3690 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3692 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3693 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3694 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3695 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3696 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3700 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3702 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3703 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3704 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3705 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3706 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3707 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3708 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3709 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3710 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3711 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3712 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3713 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3714 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3715 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3716 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3718 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3719 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3720 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3721 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3722 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3723 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3724 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3725 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3726 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3727 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3729 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3730 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3731 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3732 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3733 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3735 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3737 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3738 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3740 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3741 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3742 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3743 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3744 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3745 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3747 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3750 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3751 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3752 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3753 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3754 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3755 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3756 test macros defined.
3758 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3760 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3761 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3762 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3763 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3764 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3765 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3768 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3769 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3770 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3771 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3774 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3775 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3776 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
3778 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3779 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3780 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3781 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
3783 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3784 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3785 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3786 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3787 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3788 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3789 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3792 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3793 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3794 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3795 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3796 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3797 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3798 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3799 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3800 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
3802 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3803 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3804 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3805 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3806 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
3807 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
3809 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3810 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3811 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3812 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
3816 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3818 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3819 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3820 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3821 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3822 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3823 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3824 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3825 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3826 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3827 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
3828 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3829 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3830 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3831 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3832 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
3833 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3834 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3835 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
3837 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3838 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3840 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3841 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3842 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
3843 extension which uses __block.
3845 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3846 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3847 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3848 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3849 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3851 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3852 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3853 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3854 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3857 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3858 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3859 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3860 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3861 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
3863 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3864 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3865 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3867 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3868 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3869 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3872 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3873 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3875 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
3876 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
3878 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3880 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3883 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
3885 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3887 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3888 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3889 for which the C library was built.
3891 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3892 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3893 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3894 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3895 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3896 in the following circumstances:
3898 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3900 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3901 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3903 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3904 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3906 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3907 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
3909 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3911 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3912 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3914 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
3916 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
3918 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
3920 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3921 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3922 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3923 disable some of those declarations.
3925 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
3926 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3927 that did nothing) has also been removed.
3929 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3930 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
3932 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3933 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3934 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3935 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3936 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3937 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3938 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3939 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3940 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3941 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3942 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3943 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3944 require recompilation.
3948 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3950 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
3951 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3952 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
3953 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3954 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3955 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3956 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3957 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3958 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3959 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3960 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3961 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3962 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3965 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3966 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3967 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3968 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3969 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3970 understands and accepts the risks.
3972 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3975 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3976 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
3978 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3979 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3980 destructor calls to glibc.
3982 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3985 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3986 non-x86 architectures.
3988 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3990 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3992 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3995 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3997 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4000 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4001 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4003 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4005 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4006 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4008 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4009 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4011 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4012 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4013 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4015 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4016 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4017 attributes of a process.
4019 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4020 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4021 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4022 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4025 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4026 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4028 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4032 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4034 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4035 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4036 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4037 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4038 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4039 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4040 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4041 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4042 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4043 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4044 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4045 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4046 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4047 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4048 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4050 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4052 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4053 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4055 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4056 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4058 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4060 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4061 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4063 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4065 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4066 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4067 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4069 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4070 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4072 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4073 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4075 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4076 can be used with is 2.6.16.
4078 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4079 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4081 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4082 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
4083 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4084 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
4086 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4087 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4089 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
4090 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
4093 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4094 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4095 information in --help and --version output.
4097 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4098 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4099 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4101 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4102 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4103 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4104 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4105 when the mode is enabled.
4107 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4108 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4109 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4110 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4111 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4112 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4113 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
4115 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4120 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4122 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4123 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4124 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4125 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4126 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4127 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4128 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4129 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4130 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4131 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4132 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4133 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4134 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4135 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4136 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4137 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4138 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4139 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4140 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4141 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4142 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4143 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4146 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4147 configuring glibc with:
4148 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
4149 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
4150 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4154 + define static_assert
4156 + do not declare gets
4158 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4160 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4161 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4162 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4165 + timespec_get added
4167 + uchar.h support added
4169 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4171 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4173 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
4175 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
4177 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4178 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4180 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4181 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4183 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4184 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4185 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4186 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4187 existing applications.
4189 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
4190 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4193 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4194 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4195 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4197 * New locales: mag_IN
4199 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4200 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4201 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4202 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4203 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
4205 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4207 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4210 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4212 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4213 without a previously built glibc.
4215 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4216 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4218 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4219 now supported for ARM processors.
4221 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4222 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4223 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4225 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
4227 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4228 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4229 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4230 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
4232 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4233 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4234 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4235 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4237 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4238 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4239 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4240 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4241 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4243 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4244 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4245 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4246 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
4250 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4252 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4253 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4254 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4255 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4256 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4257 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4258 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
4260 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4261 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4263 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4264 and support for initgroups lookups.
4265 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4267 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4268 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4270 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4271 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4273 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4274 on x86-32 and x86-64.
4275 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4277 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
4278 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4280 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4281 for x86-64 and x86-32.
4282 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4284 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4285 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4287 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4288 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4290 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4291 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4293 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4294 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4296 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4297 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4299 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4300 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4302 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
4304 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4305 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4307 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4308 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
4310 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
4314 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4316 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
4317 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
4318 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
4319 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4320 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4321 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4322 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4323 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4324 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4325 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4327 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4328 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4329 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
4330 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
4332 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
4333 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4334 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
4335 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4337 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
4338 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
4340 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
4341 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
4343 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
4345 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4346 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4348 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4349 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4350 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4351 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
4355 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4357 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4358 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4359 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4360 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4363 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
4365 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
4367 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4368 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
4369 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4373 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4375 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4376 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4377 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4378 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
4379 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4380 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4381 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
4382 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
4384 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
4386 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4388 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4390 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4391 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4392 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4394 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4395 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4396 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4397 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4398 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4400 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
4404 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4406 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4407 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4408 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4409 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4410 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4411 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4413 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4415 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4417 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
4418 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4420 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4421 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4423 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4425 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
4426 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
4427 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
4428 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4430 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
4431 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4433 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4435 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4437 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4438 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4440 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4441 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4443 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4444 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4446 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4447 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4448 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4449 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4450 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4451 necessity is every process again.
4452 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4454 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4455 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4457 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4458 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4460 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4461 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4462 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4464 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
4468 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4470 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4471 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4472 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4473 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4474 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4476 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
4477 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4479 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
4480 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4482 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
4483 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
4485 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4488 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
4489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4491 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4492 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4494 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4495 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4497 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4498 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4500 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4501 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4502 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4504 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
4506 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
4507 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4509 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4510 and extend existing format specifiers.
4511 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4513 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4514 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4516 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4517 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4518 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4519 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4520 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4521 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4525 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4527 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4528 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4529 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4530 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4531 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4533 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
4534 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4536 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4537 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
4539 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4540 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4542 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4543 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4544 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4546 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4547 Implemented by Eric Blake.
4549 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
4551 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
4552 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4554 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4555 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4556 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4557 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4559 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4560 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4562 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4564 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4566 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4570 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4572 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4573 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4574 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4575 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4576 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4577 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4578 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4580 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4582 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4584 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4585 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4587 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4589 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4590 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4592 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4593 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4595 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4596 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4597 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4599 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4600 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4602 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4603 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4605 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4606 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4608 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4609 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4613 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4615 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4616 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4617 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4618 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4619 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4621 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4622 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4624 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4626 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4627 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4628 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4630 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4631 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4633 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4634 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4636 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4638 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4639 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4641 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4642 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4644 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4645 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4647 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4649 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4650 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4652 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4653 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4656 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4657 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4661 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4663 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4664 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4665 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4666 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4667 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4668 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4669 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4672 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4674 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4676 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4680 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4682 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4683 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4684 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4685 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4686 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4687 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4688 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4689 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4690 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4692 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4693 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4694 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4696 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4697 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4699 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4701 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4703 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4704 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4705 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4706 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4707 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4709 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4710 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4711 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4712 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4714 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4717 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4719 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4722 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4724 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4725 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4729 * More overflow detection functions.
4731 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4732 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4734 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4735 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4736 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4737 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4738 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4739 by Masahide Washizawa.
4741 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4742 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4744 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4745 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4746 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4747 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4749 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4750 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4752 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4754 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4755 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4756 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4758 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4759 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4761 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4762 for compatibility with some other systems.
4764 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4768 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4770 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4771 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4772 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4773 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4774 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4775 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4777 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4779 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4781 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
4785 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4787 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4788 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4789 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4790 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4792 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4796 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4797 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4799 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4800 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4801 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4803 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4804 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4806 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
4808 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4810 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4811 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4814 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4815 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
4816 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4818 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
4819 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4821 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4822 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4823 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4824 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4826 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4827 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4828 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
4829 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4831 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4832 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4833 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4834 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4835 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
4839 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4840 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4842 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4843 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
4845 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
4846 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4848 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4849 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4851 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4854 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
4857 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4862 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4863 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4864 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4865 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4866 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4867 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4868 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4869 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4870 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4872 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4873 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4874 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4876 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
4878 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4879 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
4881 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4882 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4884 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
4886 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4887 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
4889 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4890 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4891 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4892 of weak definition in ld.so.
4894 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4895 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4897 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4898 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
4902 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4905 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4906 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
4908 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
4909 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
4911 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4912 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
4914 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
4915 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4916 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4918 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4919 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
4921 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
4922 implementation of regex.
4924 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4927 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4928 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
4930 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4931 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4932 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
4934 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
4935 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
4937 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4938 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4939 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
4941 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4942 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4944 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4945 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4948 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
4952 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4953 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4955 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4956 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
4960 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4961 128-bit long double format.
4963 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4964 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
4966 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
4968 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4970 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4973 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4974 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
4976 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
4980 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
4981 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
4983 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4984 support Unicode 3.1.
4986 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4987 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
4989 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
4991 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
4992 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4993 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4995 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4996 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4998 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4999 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5001 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5005 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5006 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5007 in float, double, and long double format.
5009 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5010 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5011 128-bit long double format.
5013 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5014 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5015 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5016 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5018 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5019 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5020 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5022 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5023 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5025 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5026 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5028 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5029 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5030 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5032 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5033 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5035 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5036 of functions for Linux/x86.
5038 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5042 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5043 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5044 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5045 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5046 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5047 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5050 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5051 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5053 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5054 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5055 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5056 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5058 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5063 only lists the names of the supported locales
5067 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5068 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5072 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5073 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5074 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5075 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5076 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5078 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5080 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5082 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
5084 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5085 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5086 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
5088 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5089 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5091 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5092 changed from the default "C" locale.
5094 * The usual bug fixes.
5098 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5099 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5102 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5104 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
5106 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5107 obviously requires a database library being available.
5109 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5111 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
5113 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5114 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5116 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5118 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5119 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5122 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5123 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5124 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
5126 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
5127 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5129 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5130 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5131 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5133 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5134 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5135 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5136 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5138 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5139 structures for the wide character tables.
5141 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5143 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
5145 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5147 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5150 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5152 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5154 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5156 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5158 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5160 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5161 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5162 implemented for Linux.
5164 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5165 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5166 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5169 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5172 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
5186 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5188 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5190 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
5192 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5194 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
5196 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
5198 * Update timezone data files.
5200 * lots of charmaps corrections
5202 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
5207 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5208 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5209 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5210 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5211 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5212 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5214 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
5215 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5217 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
5220 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5221 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
5223 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
5225 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
5228 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
5230 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5231 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
5233 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5236 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
5237 functions from ISO C 9X.
5239 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5240 real valued functions.
5242 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
5244 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5246 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
5248 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
5250 * Optimized string functions have been added.
5252 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
5254 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5256 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5257 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5259 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5260 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5264 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
5266 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
5268 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
5270 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5272 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5274 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
5276 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5277 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
5280 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5281 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
5283 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
5285 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
5287 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5288 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5290 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
5292 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5295 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5296 latest draft standards.
5298 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5300 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5301 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5302 addseverity NEW: Unix98
5303 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
5304 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5305 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5306 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5307 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5308 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5309 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5310 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5311 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5312 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5313 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
5314 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5315 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5316 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
5317 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5318 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5319 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5321 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5322 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5323 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5324 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5325 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5332 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5333 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5334 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5335 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5336 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5338 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5339 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5340 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5341 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5342 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5343 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5347 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5348 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5354 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5355 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5356 clearerr_locked REMOVED
5357 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5359 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5360 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5361 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5371 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5372 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5374 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5375 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5380 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5381 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5384 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5385 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5389 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5390 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5392 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5393 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5394 endutxent NEW: Unix98
5396 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5397 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5401 fattach NEW: STREAMS
5402 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5406 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5407 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5408 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5409 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5410 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5412 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5413 ferror_locked REMOVED
5414 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5415 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5416 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5417 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5418 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5419 fflush_locked REMOVED
5423 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5424 fileno_locked REMOVED
5436 fputc_locked REMOVED
5437 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5438 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5443 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5447 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5449 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5450 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5454 getchar_locked REMOVED
5456 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5457 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5459 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
5460 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
5461 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5462 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5463 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5464 getutxent NEW: Unix98
5465 getutxid NEW: Unix98
5466 getutxline NEW: Unix98
5467 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5468 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5469 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5470 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5471 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5472 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5474 iconv_close NEW: iconv
5475 iconv_open NEW: iconv
5476 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5477 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5478 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5479 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5480 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5481 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5482 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5483 isastream NEW: STREAMS
5484 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
5485 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5486 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5487 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5488 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5489 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5490 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5491 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5492 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5493 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
5494 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5495 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5496 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5497 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5498 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5499 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5504 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5505 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5506 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5507 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5508 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5510 makecontext NEW: Unix98
5511 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5514 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5518 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5519 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5520 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5521 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5522 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
5523 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5524 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5525 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
5529 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
5531 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5532 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5535 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5536 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5537 profil_counter REMOVED
5538 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5539 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5540 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5541 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5543 putchar_locked REMOVED
5544 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5546 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5547 pututxline NEW: Unix98
5551 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5552 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5553 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5554 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5556 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5557 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5559 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5560 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5561 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5563 sendfile NEW: kernel
5564 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5565 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5566 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5568 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5569 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5570 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5571 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5572 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5573 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5574 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5575 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5576 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5580 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5581 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5582 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5583 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5584 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5585 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5586 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5587 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5588 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5589 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5590 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5591 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5592 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5596 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5597 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5599 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5600 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5601 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5602 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5603 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5604 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5606 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5607 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5608 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5609 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5610 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5611 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5612 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5614 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5615 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5616 write_profiling REMOVED
5617 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5618 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5619 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5620 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5621 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5622 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5623 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5624 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5625 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5626 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5627 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5628 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5629 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5630 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5631 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5632 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5643 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5645 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5647 * rewrite of cbrt function
5649 * update of timezone data
5663 * add atoll function
5665 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5667 * fix math functions
5671 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5673 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5675 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5676 the ELF dynamic loader.
5678 * support for parallel builds is improved
5682 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5683 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5686 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5687 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5688 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5689 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5690 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5691 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5692 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5693 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5694 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5695 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5696 files in the ELF format.
5698 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5699 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5701 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5702 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5703 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5704 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5705 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5706 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5707 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5708 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5709 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5710 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5711 about dynamically linked binaries.
5713 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5714 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5715 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5716 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5717 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5719 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5720 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5721 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5722 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5723 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5725 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5727 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5728 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5729 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5730 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5731 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5732 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5733 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5734 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5735 NSS services available.
5737 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5738 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5739 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5741 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5742 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5743 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5745 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5746 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5747 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5748 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5750 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5751 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5752 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5754 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5755 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5756 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5758 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5759 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5761 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5762 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5763 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5764 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5766 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5767 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5768 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5770 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5771 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5772 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5773 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5774 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5775 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
5776 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
5777 the header file <printf.h> for details.
5779 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5780 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5781 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5782 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5783 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5784 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5785 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
5787 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5788 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5789 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5790 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5791 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5792 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5794 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5795 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5797 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5798 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5799 NSS scheme used in glibc.
5801 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5803 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5804 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5805 their use is discouraged.
5807 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5808 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
5810 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5811 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
5813 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5814 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5816 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5819 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5820 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
5821 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5822 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5823 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
5825 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5826 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5827 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5828 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
5830 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5831 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5833 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5834 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5835 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5836 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5839 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5840 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5842 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5843 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5845 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
5846 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
5847 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5848 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
5850 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5852 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5853 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5854 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5856 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5857 for arithmetic and string handling.
5859 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
5860 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5861 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5862 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5864 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5865 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5866 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5867 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5868 programs already written to use it.)
5870 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5873 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5876 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5877 a given effective group ID.
5879 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5880 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5881 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5882 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5884 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
5885 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
5886 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5887 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5888 doing the same thing.
5890 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5891 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5893 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
5894 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
5896 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5898 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5899 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5900 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
5901 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
5902 `-ldb' to get these functions.
5904 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5905 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
5907 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
5908 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5909 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5912 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5914 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5915 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5918 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5919 and writing the utmp file.
5921 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5924 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5925 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5926 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5928 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5929 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5931 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5932 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5935 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5936 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5937 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5938 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5940 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5941 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5942 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5944 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5945 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5946 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5949 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5952 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5955 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5957 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5958 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5959 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
5963 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5965 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5966 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5968 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5969 want to put themselves in the background.
5971 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5972 run without an operating system.
5974 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5975 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5977 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5978 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5980 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5982 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5983 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5986 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5989 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5990 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5994 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5995 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5996 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5998 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5999 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6001 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6002 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6004 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6006 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6008 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6011 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6012 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6013 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6015 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6017 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6018 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6019 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6021 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6022 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6023 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6024 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6025 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6028 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6029 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6030 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6031 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6032 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6035 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6036 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6040 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6041 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6043 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6044 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6045 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6047 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6048 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6049 address of the last character written.
6051 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6052 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6054 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6055 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6057 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6058 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6059 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6060 you dereference this pointer.
6062 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6063 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6065 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6066 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6067 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6068 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6070 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6071 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6072 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6073 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6077 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6078 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6079 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6080 in Emacs or the `info' program.
6081 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
6083 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6085 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6087 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6088 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6090 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6091 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6093 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6094 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6096 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6097 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6098 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6099 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6100 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6102 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6103 to the error code in `errno'.
6105 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6106 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6107 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6110 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6111 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6112 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6114 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6115 uniquely-named temporary file.
6119 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6120 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6121 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6123 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6126 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6127 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6129 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6133 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6134 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6135 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6136 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6138 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6139 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6140 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6142 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6143 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6145 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6146 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6147 made itself into a shared library.
6149 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6150 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6152 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6153 with limited length.
6155 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6157 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6159 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6161 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6162 function for traversing a directory tree.
6164 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6165 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6166 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6167 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6169 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6170 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6172 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6174 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6175 things to your strings.
6177 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6179 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6180 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6181 supporting those systems.
6183 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6184 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6185 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6186 configuration files.
6188 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6189 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6191 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
6192 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6195 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6196 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6197 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6198 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6199 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6200 required storage is not available.
6202 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6203 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
6205 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6206 latest files released from Berkeley.
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