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12 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
13 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
15 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
18 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
21 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
24 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
27 * Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the following
28 languages: Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Scottish Gaelic,
29 Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now support
30 abbreviated alternative month names: Catalan, Greek, and Kashubian.
32 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
35 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
36 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
37 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
38 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
39 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
40 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
41 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
42 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
43 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
45 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
46 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
47 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
48 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
49 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
50 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
51 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
52 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
53 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
54 results in a load failure now.
56 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
58 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
59 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
60 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
62 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
63 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
64 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
65 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
66 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
67 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
69 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
70 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
71 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
72 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
73 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
74 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
77 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
78 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
79 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
80 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
81 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
84 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
85 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
86 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
88 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
90 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
91 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
92 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
94 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
95 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
96 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
97 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
99 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
100 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
101 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
102 for this function instead.
104 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
105 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
106 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
108 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
109 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
110 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
111 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
113 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
114 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
115 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
116 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
117 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
119 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
120 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
121 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
122 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
123 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
124 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
127 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
128 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
129 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
132 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
133 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
134 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
136 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
138 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
140 Security related changes:
142 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
143 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
144 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
145 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
147 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
148 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
150 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
151 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
154 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
155 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
156 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
158 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
160 [The release manager will add the list generated by
161 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
168 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
169 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
170 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
171 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
172 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
173 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
174 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
175 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
176 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
178 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
179 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
182 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
184 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
186 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
187 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
188 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
189 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
190 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
191 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
192 from a security and performance perspective.
194 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
195 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
196 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
197 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
199 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
200 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
201 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
202 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
203 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
205 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
206 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
207 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
208 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
211 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
212 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
213 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
215 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
217 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
218 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
221 * The copy_file_range function was added.
223 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
225 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
226 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
227 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
229 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
230 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
231 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
232 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
233 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
234 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
235 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
237 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
238 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
239 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
240 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
241 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
242 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
243 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
245 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
246 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
247 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
248 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
251 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
252 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
253 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
254 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
256 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
257 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
258 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
260 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
261 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
262 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
264 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
265 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
266 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
272 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
274 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
275 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
276 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
277 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
278 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
279 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
280 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
281 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
282 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
285 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
286 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
287 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
289 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
290 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
291 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
292 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
293 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
294 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
295 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
296 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
297 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
298 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
299 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
300 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
301 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
302 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
303 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
304 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
305 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
306 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
307 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
308 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
309 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
310 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
311 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
312 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
313 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
314 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
316 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
317 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
319 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
320 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
321 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
322 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
323 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
324 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
325 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
327 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
328 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
329 exp10l for these functions instead.
331 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
332 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
333 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
335 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
336 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
339 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
340 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
341 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
342 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
344 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
345 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
347 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
348 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
350 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
353 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
355 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
356 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
357 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
360 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
361 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
362 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
363 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
364 use, but predates the bits convention.
366 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
368 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
371 Security related changes:
373 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
374 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
375 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
376 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
379 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
380 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
381 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
382 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
384 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
385 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
386 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
389 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
390 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
391 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
393 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
394 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
395 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
396 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
398 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
399 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
400 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
403 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
404 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
405 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
406 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
407 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
409 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
410 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
413 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
414 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
415 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
417 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
418 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
419 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
421 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
422 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
423 small, instead of NULL.
425 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
427 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
428 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
429 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
431 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
432 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
433 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
435 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
436 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
437 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
438 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
439 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
440 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
441 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
442 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
443 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
445 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
446 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
447 width Latin characters
448 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
449 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
450 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
452 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
453 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
455 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
456 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
457 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
458 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
459 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
461 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
462 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
463 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
464 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
465 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
466 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
467 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
468 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
469 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
470 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
472 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
473 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
474 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
475 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
476 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
477 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
478 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
479 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
481 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
482 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
484 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
485 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
487 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
488 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
489 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
490 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
491 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
492 __regcall calling convention
493 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
494 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
495 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
496 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
497 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
498 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
499 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
500 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
501 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
502 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
503 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
504 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
505 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
507 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
509 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
511 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
512 consistency check failures
513 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
514 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
515 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
516 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
518 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
520 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
521 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
522 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
523 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
524 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
525 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
526 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
527 on memory allocation failure
528 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
529 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
531 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
533 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
534 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
535 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
536 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
537 instead of EAI_NODATA
538 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
539 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
540 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
541 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
543 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
544 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
545 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
546 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
547 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
548 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
549 allocation in syscall loops)
550 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
551 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
552 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
553 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
554 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
555 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
556 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
557 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
558 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
560 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
561 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
562 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
564 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
565 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
567 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
569 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
570 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
571 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
572 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
573 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
574 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
575 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
576 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
577 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
578 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
579 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
580 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
581 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
582 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
583 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
584 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
585 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
586 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
588 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
590 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
591 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
593 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
594 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
595 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
596 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
598 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
599 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
600 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
601 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
602 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
603 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
604 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
605 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
606 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
607 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
608 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
610 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
611 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
612 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
613 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
614 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
615 the svid compat wrapper
616 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
617 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
618 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
619 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
620 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
621 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
623 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
624 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
626 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
627 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
628 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
629 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
630 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
631 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
633 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
634 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
635 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
636 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
638 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
639 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
641 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
642 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
643 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
644 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
645 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
646 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
647 inside the ASCII printable range
648 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
650 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
651 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
652 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
654 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
655 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
657 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
658 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
659 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
661 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
663 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
664 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
665 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
666 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
667 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
668 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
669 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
670 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
671 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
673 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
674 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
675 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
676 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
677 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
678 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
680 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
681 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
682 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
684 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
686 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
687 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
688 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
689 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
690 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
692 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
693 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
694 modified in case of success
695 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
696 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
698 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
700 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
701 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
702 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
703 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
704 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
705 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
706 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
707 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
709 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
710 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
711 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
712 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
713 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
714 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
715 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
716 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
717 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
719 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
721 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
723 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
724 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
725 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
727 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
728 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
730 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
731 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
732 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
733 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
734 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
735 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
736 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
737 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
738 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
745 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
746 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
747 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
748 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
749 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
750 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
751 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
753 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
754 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
755 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
756 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
757 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
758 are rendered with pango, see for example:
759 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
761 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
762 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
765 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
767 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
768 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
769 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
771 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
772 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
773 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
774 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
775 object are still limited to six search domains.
777 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
778 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
779 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
781 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
782 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
784 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
785 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
786 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
787 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
789 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
790 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
791 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
792 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
794 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
795 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
796 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
797 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
799 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
800 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
801 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
803 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
804 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
805 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
806 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
808 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
809 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
810 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
811 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
812 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
814 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
815 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
816 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
817 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
818 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
819 interfaces should be used instead.
821 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
823 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
824 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
825 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
826 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
827 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
828 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
829 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
830 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
832 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
835 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
836 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
837 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
838 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
840 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
841 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
844 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
845 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
846 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
847 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
848 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
850 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
851 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
852 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
853 name service modules, to be built and installed.
855 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
856 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
857 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
858 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
860 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
861 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
863 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
864 exported by accident.
866 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
867 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
868 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
870 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
871 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
872 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
873 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
875 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
877 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
879 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
882 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
883 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
885 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
886 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
888 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
889 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
890 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
891 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
892 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
893 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
894 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
895 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
897 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
898 synced with the kernel:
900 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
901 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
903 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
904 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
905 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
907 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
908 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
910 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
912 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
913 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
916 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
918 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
919 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
921 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
922 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
923 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
924 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
925 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
927 Security related changes:
929 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
930 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
932 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
933 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
935 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
936 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
939 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
940 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
942 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
944 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
945 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
946 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
948 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
950 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
951 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
952 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
954 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
955 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
956 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
957 x86 and other generic code
958 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
959 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
961 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
962 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
963 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
964 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
965 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
966 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
967 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
969 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
970 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
971 order of 0D36 and 0D37
972 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
974 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
975 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
977 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
979 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
980 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
981 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
983 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
984 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
985 failures consistently
986 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
987 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
988 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
989 frame-pointer on i386
990 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
992 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
993 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
994 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
995 generic c code is used
996 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
997 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
999 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1001 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1002 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1004 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1005 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1006 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1007 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1008 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1009 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1010 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1011 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1012 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1013 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1015 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1017 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1018 new posix_spawn implementation
1019 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1020 leads to lower CPU frequency
1021 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1022 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1023 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1024 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1025 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1026 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1027 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1028 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1029 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1030 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1031 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1032 not support gethostbyname4_r
1033 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1035 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1037 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1038 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1039 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1040 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1041 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1042 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1043 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1045 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1046 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1047 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1048 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1049 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1050 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1051 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1052 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1053 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1054 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1055 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1056 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1058 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1059 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1060 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1061 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1062 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1063 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1064 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1065 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1067 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1068 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1069 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1070 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1071 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1072 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1073 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1074 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1075 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1076 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1077 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1078 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1079 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1080 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1081 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1082 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1083 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1084 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1085 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1086 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1087 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1089 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1090 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1091 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1092 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1093 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1095 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1096 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1098 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1099 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1101 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1102 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1104 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1105 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1106 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1107 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1109 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1110 leading to relocation crash
1111 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1112 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1113 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1114 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1115 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1116 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1117 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1118 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1119 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1121 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1123 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1124 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1125 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1126 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1127 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1128 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1129 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1130 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1132 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1134 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1136 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1137 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1138 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1139 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1140 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1141 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1142 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1143 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1144 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1145 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1146 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1147 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1148 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1149 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1150 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1151 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1152 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1153 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1154 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1155 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1156 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1157 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1158 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1159 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1160 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1161 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1162 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1164 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1165 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1166 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1167 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1168 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
1173 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1174 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1175 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1178 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1179 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1180 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
1183 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1184 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1185 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1188 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1189 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1190 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1191 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1192 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1193 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1194 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1197 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1198 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1201 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1202 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1203 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1205 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1206 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1207 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1208 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1211 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
1212 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1213 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
1215 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1216 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
1217 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1218 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1219 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1220 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1221 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1222 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1223 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1224 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1225 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1228 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1230 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1232 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1233 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1234 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
1236 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1237 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1239 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1242 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1244 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
1246 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1247 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
1249 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1251 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
1252 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
1254 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1255 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1257 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1258 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1259 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1261 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1262 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1263 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1264 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1265 effects of the memory clear).
1267 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1268 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1269 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1270 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1272 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1273 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1274 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1275 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1276 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1277 if they are compiled or used with those options.
1279 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1282 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1283 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1284 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1285 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1286 as large as several megabytes.
1288 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1289 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1292 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1293 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1294 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1295 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1296 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1297 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1298 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1300 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1301 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1302 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1303 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1305 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
1306 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1307 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1310 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1311 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1312 They were already unimplemented.
1314 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1315 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1316 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1317 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1319 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1320 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1321 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1322 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1323 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1325 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1326 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1327 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1328 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1329 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1331 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1332 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1333 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1334 did not reflect that.
1336 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1337 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1338 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1339 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1340 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1341 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1342 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1345 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1346 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1347 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1348 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1350 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1351 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1352 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1353 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1355 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1356 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1359 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1360 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1363 Security related changes:
1365 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
1366 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1367 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1368 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
1369 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
1371 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1372 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1373 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1374 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1377 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1379 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1380 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1382 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1383 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1384 before it started waiting
1385 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1386 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1387 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1388 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1390 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1391 library linked with pthread
1392 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1393 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1394 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1395 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1396 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1397 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1398 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1400 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1402 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1403 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1404 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1405 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1406 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1407 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1408 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1409 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1410 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1412 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1413 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1414 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1415 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1416 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1417 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1418 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1419 causes a segmentation fault
1420 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1422 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1423 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1425 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1427 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1428 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1429 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1431 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1432 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1434 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1435 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1436 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1437 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1438 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1439 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1440 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1441 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1443 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1444 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1445 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1447 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1449 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1451 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1452 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1453 cause transition penalty
1454 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1455 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1456 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1457 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1458 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1460 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1462 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1463 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1464 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1465 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1466 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1467 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1469 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1471 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1472 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1473 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1474 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1475 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1476 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1477 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1478 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1479 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1480 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1481 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1482 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1483 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1484 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1486 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1487 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1488 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1489 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1490 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1491 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1492 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1493 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1494 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1495 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1496 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1497 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1498 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1499 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1500 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1501 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1502 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1503 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1505 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1506 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1507 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1508 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1509 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1511 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1512 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1513 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1514 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1515 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1516 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1517 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1519 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1520 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1521 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1522 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1523 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1527 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1528 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1529 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1530 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1531 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1534 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1535 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1536 been included in previous releases.
1538 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1539 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1541 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1542 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1543 instead of “union wait”.
1545 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1546 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1547 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1548 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1549 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1550 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1551 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1553 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1556 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1557 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1560 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1561 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1562 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1563 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1564 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1567 Security related changes:
1569 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1570 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1571 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1573 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1574 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1575 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1576 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
1578 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1579 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1580 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1582 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1583 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1584 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1586 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1587 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1588 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1589 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1591 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1593 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1594 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1596 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1597 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1598 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1599 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1600 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1601 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1602 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1603 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1605 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1606 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1607 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1608 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1609 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1610 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1612 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1614 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1615 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1616 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1617 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1618 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1619 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1620 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1621 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1622 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1623 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1624 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1626 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1627 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1628 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1629 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1630 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1631 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1633 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1634 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1636 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1637 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1638 Romanian locale data
1639 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1641 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1642 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1644 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1645 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1646 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1647 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1649 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1651 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1652 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1653 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1654 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1655 when using RTLD_NEXT
1656 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1657 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1658 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1659 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1660 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1661 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1662 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1663 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1664 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1666 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1667 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1668 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1669 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1671 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1673 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1675 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1676 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1677 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1678 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1679 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1680 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1682 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1683 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1685 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1686 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1688 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1690 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1692 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1693 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1694 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1695 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1696 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1697 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1698 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1699 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1700 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1701 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1702 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1703 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1704 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1705 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1707 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1709 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1710 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1711 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1712 response to getaddrinfo
1713 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1714 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1715 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1716 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1717 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1718 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1720 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1721 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1722 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1724 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1725 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1726 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1727 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1729 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1730 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1731 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1733 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1734 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1735 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1736 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1737 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1738 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1739 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1740 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1742 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1743 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1744 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1746 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1747 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1748 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1749 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1750 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1751 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1752 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1753 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1754 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1755 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1756 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1757 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1758 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1760 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1761 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1762 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1763 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1765 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1766 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1768 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1769 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1770 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1771 AS not supporting AVX512
1772 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1774 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1775 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1777 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1778 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1779 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1780 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1781 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1783 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1784 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1786 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1787 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1788 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1789 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1790 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1791 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1792 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1793 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1794 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1796 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1797 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1798 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1799 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1800 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1801 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1802 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1803 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1804 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1805 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1806 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1807 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1808 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1810 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1811 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1812 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1813 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1814 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1816 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1817 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1819 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1820 "invalid" exceptions
1821 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1822 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1823 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1824 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1825 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1826 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1827 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1828 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1829 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
1833 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1834 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1835 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1836 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1837 89, 16061, and 18568.
1839 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1840 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1841 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1842 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1843 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1844 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1845 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1847 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1848 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1849 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1851 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1852 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1853 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1854 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1855 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1856 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1857 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1859 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1860 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1861 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1862 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1863 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
1864 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
1865 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1868 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1869 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1870 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1871 independent of the GNU C Library.
1873 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1874 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1876 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1877 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1878 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1879 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1880 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1883 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1884 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
1886 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1887 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1888 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1889 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1890 defining their own copy.
1892 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1893 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1894 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1896 Security related changes:
1898 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1899 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1901 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1902 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1903 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1904 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1907 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1908 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1910 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1911 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1913 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1914 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
1915 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
1917 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1918 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1919 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1920 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1921 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1922 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1923 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1924 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1925 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1926 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1927 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1928 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1929 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1931 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1933 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1934 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1935 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1936 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1937 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1938 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1940 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1941 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1942 overflow/underflow errors
1943 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1945 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1946 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1947 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1948 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1949 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1950 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1952 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1953 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1954 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1955 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1956 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1957 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1958 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1959 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1960 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1962 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1964 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1965 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1966 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1968 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1969 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1970 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1971 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1972 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1974 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1975 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1977 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1978 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1979 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1980 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1981 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1982 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1983 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1984 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1986 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1987 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1988 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1989 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1990 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1992 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1993 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1995 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1996 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1997 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1998 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1999 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2001 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2002 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2003 (related to lock elision)
2004 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2005 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2006 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2007 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2009 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2010 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2011 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2012 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2013 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2014 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2015 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2016 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2017 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2018 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2019 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2020 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2021 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2022 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2023 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2024 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2025 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2026 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2027 contains a vector instruction exception.
2028 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2029 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2031 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2032 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2033 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2034 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2035 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2037 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2039 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2040 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2042 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2043 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2044 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2045 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2046 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2048 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2049 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2050 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2051 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2052 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2053 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2054 statically too large
2055 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2056 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2057 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2058 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2059 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2060 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2061 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2062 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2063 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2065 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2066 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2067 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2068 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2069 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2070 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2071 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2073 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2074 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2075 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2076 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2078 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2079 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2080 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2081 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2082 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2083 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2085 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2086 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2087 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2088 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2089 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2090 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2092 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2093 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2094 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2095 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2096 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2097 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2098 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2099 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2101 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2102 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2103 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2104 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2105 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2106 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2107 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2108 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2109 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2111 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2113 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2114 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2115 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2117 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2118 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2119 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2120 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2121 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2122 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2123 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2124 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2125 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2126 pthread_setaffinity_np
2127 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2128 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2129 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2130 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2131 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2133 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2134 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2135 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2136 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2137 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2138 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2139 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2141 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2142 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2143 for C99-based standards
2144 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2145 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2147 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2148 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2149 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2151 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2152 "inexact" exceptions
2153 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2155 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2156 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2157 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2158 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2160 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2161 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2162 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2163 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2164 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2165 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2166 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2167 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2168 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2169 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2171 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2172 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2173 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2174 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2176 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2177 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2178 error on 32-bit architectures
2179 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2180 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2181 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2182 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2183 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2184 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2185 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2186 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2187 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2189 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2191 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2192 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2193 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2194 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2196 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
2200 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2202 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
2203 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2204 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2205 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2206 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2207 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2208 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2209 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2210 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2211 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2212 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2213 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2214 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2215 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2216 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2217 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2218 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2219 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
2220 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2221 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2223 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2224 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2226 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2227 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2228 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2229 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2230 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2231 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
2233 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2234 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2235 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2236 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2237 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2239 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2240 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2241 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2243 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2244 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2245 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2248 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2249 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2250 condition in some applications.
2252 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
2253 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2255 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2256 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
2257 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2258 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
2259 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
2261 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2262 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2263 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2264 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
2266 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2267 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2268 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
2270 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2271 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2273 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2274 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2275 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2277 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2278 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2279 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
2283 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2285 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
2286 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2287 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2288 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2289 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2290 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2291 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2292 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2293 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2294 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2297 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2298 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2299 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2300 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2303 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2304 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2305 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2306 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2307 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2308 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
2310 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2312 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2313 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
2314 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
2316 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2317 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2318 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2319 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2320 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2321 effects being visible outside transactions.
2323 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2324 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2326 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2328 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2329 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
2330 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
2331 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2332 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
2334 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2335 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2337 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2338 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2341 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2342 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2343 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2345 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2346 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2348 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
2350 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2351 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2352 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2353 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
2355 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2356 with newer versions of bison.
2358 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2359 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2360 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2361 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2362 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2363 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2364 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2365 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2366 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2367 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2368 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2369 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2370 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2372 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2373 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2374 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2375 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2376 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
2380 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2382 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2383 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2384 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2385 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2386 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2387 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2388 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2389 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2390 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2391 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2392 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2393 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2394 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2395 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2396 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
2398 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2399 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2400 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2401 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2402 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
2403 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
2404 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2405 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2406 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2407 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2409 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2410 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2411 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2412 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2413 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
2415 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2417 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2418 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2420 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2421 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2422 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2423 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2424 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2425 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2427 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2430 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2431 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2432 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2433 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2434 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2435 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2436 test macros defined.
2438 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2440 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2441 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2442 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2443 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2444 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2445 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2448 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2449 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2450 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2451 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2454 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2455 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2456 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
2458 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2459 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2460 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2461 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
2463 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2464 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2465 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2466 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2467 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2468 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2469 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2472 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2473 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2474 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2475 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2476 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2477 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2478 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2479 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2480 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
2482 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2483 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2484 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2485 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2486 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
2487 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
2489 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2490 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2491 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2492 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
2496 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2498 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2499 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2500 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2501 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2502 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2503 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2504 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2505 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2506 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2507 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
2508 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2509 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2510 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2511 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2512 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
2513 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2514 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2515 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
2517 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2518 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2520 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2521 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2522 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
2523 extension which uses __block.
2525 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2526 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2527 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2528 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2529 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2531 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2532 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2533 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2534 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2537 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2538 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2539 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2540 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2541 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
2543 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2544 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2545 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2547 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2548 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2549 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2552 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2553 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2555 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
2556 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
2558 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2560 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2563 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
2565 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2567 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2568 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2569 for which the C library was built.
2571 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2572 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2573 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2574 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2575 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2576 in the following circumstances:
2578 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2580 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2581 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2583 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2584 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2586 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2587 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
2589 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2591 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2592 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2594 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
2596 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
2598 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
2600 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2601 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2602 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2603 disable some of those declarations.
2605 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
2606 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2607 that did nothing) has also been removed.
2609 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2610 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
2612 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2613 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2614 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2615 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2616 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2617 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2618 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2619 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2620 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2621 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2622 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2623 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2624 require recompilation.
2628 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2630 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
2631 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2632 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
2633 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2634 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2635 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2636 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2637 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2638 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2639 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2640 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2641 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2642 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2645 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2646 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2647 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2648 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2649 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2650 understands and accepts the risks.
2652 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2655 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2656 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
2658 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2659 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2660 destructor calls to glibc.
2662 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2665 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2666 non-x86 architectures.
2668 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2670 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2672 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2675 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2677 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2680 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2681 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2683 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2685 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2686 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
2688 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2689 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
2691 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2692 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2693 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2695 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2696 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2697 attributes of a process.
2699 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2700 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2701 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2702 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2705 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2706 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2708 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2712 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2714 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
2715 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2716 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2717 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2718 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2719 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2720 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2721 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2722 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2723 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2724 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2725 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2726 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2727 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2728 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
2730 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2732 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2733 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
2735 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2736 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2738 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2740 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2741 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2743 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2745 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2746 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2747 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2749 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2750 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2752 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2753 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2755 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2756 can be used with is 2.6.16.
2758 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2759 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2761 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2762 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
2763 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2764 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
2766 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2767 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2769 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
2770 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
2773 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2774 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2775 information in --help and --version output.
2777 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2778 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2779 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2781 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2782 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2783 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2784 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2785 when the mode is enabled.
2787 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2788 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2789 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2790 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2791 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2792 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2793 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
2795 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2800 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2802 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2803 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2804 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2805 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2806 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2807 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2808 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2809 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2810 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2811 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2812 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2813 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2814 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2815 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2816 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2817 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2818 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2819 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2820 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2821 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2822 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2823 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2826 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2827 configuring glibc with:
2828 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2829 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2830 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2834 + define static_assert
2836 + do not declare gets
2838 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2840 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2841 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2842 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2845 + timespec_get added
2847 + uchar.h support added
2849 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2853 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
2855 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
2857 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2858 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2860 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2861 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2863 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2864 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2865 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2866 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2867 existing applications.
2869 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
2870 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2873 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2874 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2875 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2877 * New locales: mag_IN
2879 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2880 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2881 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2882 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2883 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
2885 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2887 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2890 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2892 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2893 without a previously built glibc.
2895 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2896 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2898 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2899 now supported for ARM processors.
2901 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2902 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2903 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2905 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
2907 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2908 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2909 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2910 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
2912 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2913 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2914 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2915 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2917 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2918 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2919 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2920 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2921 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2923 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2924 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2925 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2926 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
2930 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2932 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2933 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2934 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2935 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2936 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2937 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2938 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
2940 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2941 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2943 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2944 and support for initgroups lookups.
2945 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2947 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2948 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2950 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2951 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2953 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2954 on x86-32 and x86-64.
2955 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2957 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
2958 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2960 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2961 for x86-64 and x86-32.
2962 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2964 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2965 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2967 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2968 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2970 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2971 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2973 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2974 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2976 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2977 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2979 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2980 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2982 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
2984 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2985 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2987 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2988 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2990 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
2994 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2996 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
2997 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
2998 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
2999 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
3000 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3001 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3002 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
3003 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3004 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
3005 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
3007 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3008 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3009 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
3010 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
3012 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
3013 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3014 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
3015 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3017 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
3018 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
3020 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
3021 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
3023 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
3025 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3026 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3028 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3029 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3030 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3031 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
3035 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3037 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3038 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3039 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3040 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3043 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
3045 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
3047 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3048 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
3049 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3053 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3055 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3056 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3057 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3058 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
3059 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3060 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3061 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
3062 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
3064 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
3066 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3068 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3070 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3071 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3072 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3074 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3075 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3076 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3077 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3078 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3080 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
3084 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3086 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3087 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3088 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3089 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3090 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3091 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3093 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3095 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3097 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
3098 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3100 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3101 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3103 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3105 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
3106 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
3107 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
3108 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3110 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
3111 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3113 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3115 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3117 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3118 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3120 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3121 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3123 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3124 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3126 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3127 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3128 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3129 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3130 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3131 necessity is every process again.
3132 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3134 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3135 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3137 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3138 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3140 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3141 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3142 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3144 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
3148 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3150 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3151 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3152 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3153 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3154 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3156 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
3157 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3159 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
3160 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3162 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
3163 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
3165 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3168 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
3169 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3171 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3172 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3174 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3175 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3177 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3178 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3180 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3181 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3182 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3184 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
3186 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
3187 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3189 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3190 and extend existing format specifiers.
3191 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3193 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3194 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3196 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3197 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3198 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3199 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3200 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3201 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3205 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3207 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3208 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3209 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3210 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3211 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3213 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
3214 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3216 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3217 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
3219 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3220 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3222 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3223 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3224 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3226 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3227 Implemented by Eric Blake.
3229 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
3231 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
3232 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3234 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3235 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3236 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3237 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3239 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3240 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3242 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3244 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3246 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
3250 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3252 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3253 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3254 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3255 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3256 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3257 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3258 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3260 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
3262 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
3264 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3265 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3267 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3269 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3270 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3272 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3273 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3275 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3276 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3277 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3279 * Faster memset for x86-64.
3280 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3282 * Faster memcpy on x86.
3283 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3285 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3286 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3288 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
3289 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3293 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3295 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3296 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3297 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3298 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3299 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3301 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3302 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3304 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3306 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3307 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3308 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3310 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3311 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3313 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
3314 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3316 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3318 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3319 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3321 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3322 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3324 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3325 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3327 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3329 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3330 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3332 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3333 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3336 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3337 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3341 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3343 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3344 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3345 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3346 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3347 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3348 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3349 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3352 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
3354 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3356 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3360 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3362 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3363 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3364 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3365 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3366 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3367 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3368 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3369 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3370 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3372 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
3373 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3374 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3376 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3377 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3379 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
3381 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
3383 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3384 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3385 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
3386 site might have problems with the default behavior.
3387 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3389 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
3390 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3391 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3392 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3394 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3397 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3399 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3402 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3404 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3405 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
3409 * More overflow detection functions.
3411 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3412 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
3414 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3415 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3416 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3417 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3418 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3419 by Masahide Washizawa.
3421 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3422 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3424 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3425 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3426 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3427 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
3429 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3430 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3432 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3434 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3435 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3436 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3438 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3439 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3441 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3442 for compatibility with some other systems.
3444 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
3448 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3450 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3451 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3452 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3453 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3454 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3455 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3457 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3459 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3461 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
3465 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3467 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3468 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3469 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3470 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3472 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3476 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3477 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3479 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3480 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3481 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3483 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3484 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3486 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
3488 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3490 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3491 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3494 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3495 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
3496 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3498 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
3499 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3501 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3502 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3503 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3504 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3506 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3507 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3508 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
3509 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3511 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3512 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3513 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3514 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3515 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
3519 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3520 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3522 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3523 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
3525 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
3526 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3528 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3529 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3531 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3534 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
3537 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3542 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3543 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3544 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3545 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3546 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3547 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3548 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3549 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3550 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3552 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3553 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3554 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3556 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
3558 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3559 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
3561 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3562 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3564 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
3566 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3567 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
3569 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3570 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3571 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3572 of weak definition in ld.so.
3574 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3575 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3577 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3578 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
3582 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3585 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3586 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
3588 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
3589 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
3591 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3592 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
3594 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
3595 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3596 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3598 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3599 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3601 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3602 implementation of regex.
3604 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3607 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3608 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
3610 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3611 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3612 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
3614 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
3615 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
3617 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3618 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3619 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
3621 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3622 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3624 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3625 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3628 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3632 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3633 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3635 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3636 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
3640 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3641 128-bit long double format.
3643 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3644 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
3646 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
3648 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3650 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3653 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3654 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
3656 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
3660 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
3661 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
3663 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3664 support Unicode 3.1.
3666 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3667 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
3669 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
3671 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
3672 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3673 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3675 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3676 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3678 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3679 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
3681 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
3685 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
3686 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3687 in float, double, and long double format.
3689 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
3690 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3691 128-bit long double format.
3693 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3694 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3695 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3696 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3698 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3699 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3700 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3702 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3703 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
3705 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3706 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
3708 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3709 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3710 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
3712 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3713 family of functions for Linux/S390.
3715 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3716 of functions for Linux/x86.
3718 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
3722 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
3723 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3724 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3725 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3726 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3727 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3730 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3731 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3733 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3734 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3735 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3736 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3738 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3743 only lists the names of the supported locales
3747 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3748 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3752 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3753 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3754 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3755 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3756 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3758 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3760 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3762 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
3764 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3765 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3766 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
3768 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3769 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3771 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3772 changed from the default "C" locale.
3774 * The usual bug fixes.
3778 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3779 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3782 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3784 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
3786 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3787 obviously requires a database library being available.
3789 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3791 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
3793 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3794 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3796 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3798 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3799 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3802 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3803 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3804 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
3806 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
3807 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3809 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3810 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3811 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3813 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3814 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3815 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3816 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3818 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3819 structures for the wide character tables.
3821 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3823 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
3825 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3827 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3830 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3832 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3834 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3836 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3838 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3840 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3841 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3842 implemented for Linux.
3844 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3845 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3846 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3849 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3852 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
3866 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3868 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3870 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
3872 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3874 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
3876 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
3878 * Update timezone data files.
3880 * lots of charmaps corrections
3882 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
3887 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3888 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3889 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3890 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3891 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3892 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3894 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
3895 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3897 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
3900 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3901 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
3903 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
3905 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
3908 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
3910 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3911 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
3913 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3916 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
3917 functions from ISO C 9X.
3919 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3920 real valued functions.
3922 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
3924 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3926 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
3928 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
3930 * Optimized string functions have been added.
3932 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
3934 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3936 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3937 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3939 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3940 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3944 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
3946 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
3948 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
3950 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3952 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3954 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
3956 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3957 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
3960 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3961 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
3963 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
3965 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
3967 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3968 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3970 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
3972 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3975 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3976 latest draft standards.
3978 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3980 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3981 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3982 addseverity NEW: Unix98
3983 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
3984 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3985 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3986 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3987 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3988 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3989 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3990 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3991 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3992 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3993 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
3994 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3995 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3996 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
3997 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3998 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3999 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4001 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4002 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4003 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4004 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4005 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4012 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4013 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4014 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4015 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4016 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4018 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4019 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4020 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4021 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4022 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4023 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
4027 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4028 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4034 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4035 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4036 clearerr_locked REMOVED
4037 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4039 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4040 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4041 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4051 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4052 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4054 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4055 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4060 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4061 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4064 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4065 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4069 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4070 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4072 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4073 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
4074 endutxent NEW: Unix98
4076 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4077 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4081 fattach NEW: STREAMS
4082 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4086 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4087 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4088 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4089 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4090 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4092 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4093 ferror_locked REMOVED
4094 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4095 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4096 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4097 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4098 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4099 fflush_locked REMOVED
4103 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4104 fileno_locked REMOVED
4116 fputc_locked REMOVED
4117 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4118 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4123 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4127 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4129 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4130 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4134 getchar_locked REMOVED
4136 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4137 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4139 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
4140 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
4141 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4142 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4143 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4144 getutxent NEW: Unix98
4145 getutxid NEW: Unix98
4146 getutxline NEW: Unix98
4147 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4148 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4149 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4150 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4151 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4152 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4154 iconv_close NEW: iconv
4155 iconv_open NEW: iconv
4156 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4157 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4158 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4159 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4160 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4161 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4162 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4163 isastream NEW: STREAMS
4164 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
4165 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4166 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4167 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4168 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4169 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4170 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4171 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4172 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4173 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
4174 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4175 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4176 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4177 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4178 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4179 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4184 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4185 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4186 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4187 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4188 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4190 makecontext NEW: Unix98
4191 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4194 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4198 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4199 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4200 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4201 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4202 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
4203 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4204 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4205 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
4209 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
4211 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4212 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4215 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4216 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4217 profil_counter REMOVED
4218 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4219 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4220 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4221 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4223 putchar_locked REMOVED
4224 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4226 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4227 pututxline NEW: Unix98
4231 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4232 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4233 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4234 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4236 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4237 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4239 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4240 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4241 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4243 sendfile NEW: kernel
4244 setcontext NEW: Unix98
4245 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4246 setutxent NEW: Unix98
4248 sigignore NEW: Unix98
4249 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4250 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4251 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4252 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4253 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4254 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4255 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4256 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4260 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
4261 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4262 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4263 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
4264 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
4265 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4266 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4267 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4268 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4269 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4270 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4271 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4272 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4276 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4277 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4279 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4280 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
4281 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4282 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
4283 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
4284 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
4286 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4287 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4288 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4289 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4290 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4291 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4292 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4294 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4295 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4296 write_profiling REMOVED
4297 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4298 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4299 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4300 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4301 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4302 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4303 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4304 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4305 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4306 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4307 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4308 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4309 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
4310 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
4311 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4312 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4323 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4325 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4327 * rewrite of cbrt function
4329 * update of timezone data
4343 * add atoll function
4345 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
4347 * fix math functions
4351 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4353 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
4355 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4356 the ELF dynamic loader.
4358 * support for parallel builds is improved
4362 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4363 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4366 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4367 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4368 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4369 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
4370 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4371 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
4372 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4373 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4374 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
4375 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4376 files in the ELF format.
4378 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4379 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4381 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
4382 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4383 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4384 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4385 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4386 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4387 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4388 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
4389 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4390 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4391 about dynamically linked binaries.
4393 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4394 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
4395 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4396 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4397 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
4399 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
4400 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4401 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4402 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4403 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4405 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
4407 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4408 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
4409 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4410 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4411 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4412 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4413 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4414 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4415 NSS services available.
4417 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4418 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4419 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4421 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4422 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4423 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4425 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4426 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4427 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4428 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4430 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4431 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4432 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4434 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4435 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4436 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4438 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4439 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4441 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
4442 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
4443 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
4444 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4446 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4447 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4448 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
4450 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
4451 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4452 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4453 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
4454 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4455 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
4456 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
4457 the header file <printf.h> for details.
4459 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4460 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4461 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4462 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4463 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4464 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4465 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
4467 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4468 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4469 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4470 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4471 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4472 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4474 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4475 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4477 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4478 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4479 NSS scheme used in glibc.
4481 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4483 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4484 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4485 their use is discouraged.
4487 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4488 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
4490 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4491 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
4493 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4494 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4496 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4499 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4500 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
4501 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4502 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4503 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
4505 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4506 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4507 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4508 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
4510 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4511 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4513 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4514 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4515 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4516 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4519 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4520 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4522 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4523 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4525 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
4526 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
4527 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4528 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
4530 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4532 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4533 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4534 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4536 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4537 for arithmetic and string handling.
4539 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
4540 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4541 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4542 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4544 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4545 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4546 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4547 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4548 programs already written to use it.)
4550 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4553 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4556 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4557 a given effective group ID.
4559 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4560 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4561 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4562 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4564 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
4565 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
4566 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4567 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4568 doing the same thing.
4570 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4571 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4573 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
4574 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
4576 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4578 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4579 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4580 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
4581 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
4582 `-ldb' to get these functions.
4584 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4585 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
4587 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
4588 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4589 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4592 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4594 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4595 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4598 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4599 and writing the utmp file.
4601 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4604 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4605 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4606 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4608 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4609 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4611 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4612 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4615 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4616 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4617 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4618 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4620 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4621 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4622 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4624 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4625 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4626 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4629 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4632 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4635 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4637 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4638 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4639 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
4643 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4645 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4646 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4648 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4649 want to put themselves in the background.
4651 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4652 run without an operating system.
4654 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4655 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4657 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4658 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4660 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4662 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4663 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4666 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4669 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4670 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4674 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4675 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4676 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4678 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4679 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4681 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4682 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4684 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4686 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4688 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4691 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4692 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4693 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4695 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4697 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4698 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4699 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4701 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4702 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4703 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4704 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4705 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4708 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4709 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4710 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4711 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4712 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4715 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4716 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4720 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4721 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4723 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4724 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4725 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4727 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4728 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4729 address of the last character written.
4731 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4732 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4734 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4735 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4737 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4738 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4739 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4740 you dereference this pointer.
4742 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4743 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4745 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4746 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4747 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4748 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4750 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4751 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4752 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4753 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4757 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4758 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4759 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4760 in Emacs or the `info' program.
4761 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
4763 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4765 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4767 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4768 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4770 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4771 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4773 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4774 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4776 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4777 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4778 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4779 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4780 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4782 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4783 to the error code in `errno'.
4785 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4786 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4787 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4790 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4791 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4792 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4794 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4795 uniquely-named temporary file.
4799 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4800 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4801 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4803 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4806 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4807 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4809 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4813 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4814 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4815 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4816 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4818 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4819 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4820 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4822 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4823 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4825 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4826 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4827 made itself into a shared library.
4829 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4830 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4832 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4833 with limited length.
4835 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4837 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4839 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4841 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4842 function for traversing a directory tree.
4844 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4845 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4846 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4847 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4849 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4850 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4852 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4854 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4855 things to your strings.
4857 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4859 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4860 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4861 supporting those systems.
4863 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4864 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4865 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4866 configuration files.
4868 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4869 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4871 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
4872 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4875 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4876 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4877 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4878 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4879 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4880 required storage is not available.
4882 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4883 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
4885 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4886 latest files released from Berkeley.
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