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12 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
16 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
18 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
19 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
21 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
22 using the -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
23 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
26 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
27 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
28 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
30 * On Linux, functions the pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
31 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
32 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
34 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
35 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
36 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
37 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
38 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
39 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including libc,
40 to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the documented ABI.
41 The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of Restartable
44 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
45 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
46 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
47 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
50 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
52 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
53 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
54 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
55 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
56 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
58 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
59 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
60 was not declared in any header file.
62 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
63 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
64 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
65 sigaction functions instead.
67 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
68 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
70 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
71 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
72 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
73 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
76 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
77 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
78 have been removed from from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
79 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
80 strerror or strerror_r instead.
82 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
84 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
85 long double redirects.
87 Security related changes:
89 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
90 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
91 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
93 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
94 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
96 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
97 expanding ~user has been fixed.
99 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
101 [The release manager will add the list generated by
102 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
108 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
109 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
110 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
111 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
112 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
113 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
115 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
116 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
117 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
118 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
120 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
121 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
122 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
124 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
126 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
127 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
128 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
129 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
130 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
131 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
132 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
133 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
135 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
137 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
138 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
139 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
140 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
141 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
142 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
144 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
145 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
146 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
148 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
149 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
150 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
151 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
153 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
154 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
155 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
156 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
157 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
158 made this no longer practical.
160 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
161 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
162 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
163 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
166 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
167 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
168 with the current time, use the localtime function.
170 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
171 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
172 using clock_gettime instead.
174 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
175 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
176 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
177 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
178 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
180 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
181 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
182 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
183 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
185 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
186 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
187 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
188 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
189 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
190 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
192 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
193 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
194 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
195 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
198 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
199 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
200 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
202 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
205 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
206 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
207 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
208 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
209 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
211 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
212 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
213 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
214 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
215 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
216 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
217 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
218 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
220 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
221 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
223 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
224 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
225 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
226 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
227 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
228 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
230 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
232 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
233 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
234 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
236 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
237 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
238 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
240 Security related changes:
242 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
243 environment variable during program execution after a security
244 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
245 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
246 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
248 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
250 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
251 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
252 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
253 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
254 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
255 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
256 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
257 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
259 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
260 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
261 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
262 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
263 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
264 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
265 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
266 constructors/destructors is not fatal
267 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
268 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
270 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
272 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
273 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
274 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
275 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
276 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
277 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
278 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
280 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
282 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
283 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
284 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
285 (stringop-overflow error)
286 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
287 functions other can lead to crashes
288 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
289 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
291 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
292 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
293 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
294 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
295 still can fail with an error
296 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
297 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
298 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
299 initialized correctly
300 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
302 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
304 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
305 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
306 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
308 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
310 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
312 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
314 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
315 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
316 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
318 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
319 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
321 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
322 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
323 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
324 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
325 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
326 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
333 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
334 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
335 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
337 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
338 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
340 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
341 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
342 to the callback function.
344 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
346 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
347 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
350 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
352 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
353 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
354 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
355 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
356 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
358 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
359 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
360 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
361 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
362 link time reference, is gone.
364 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
365 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
366 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
367 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
368 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
369 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
370 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
371 the clock choice at initialization time).
373 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
374 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
375 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
377 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
379 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
380 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
381 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
382 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
383 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
384 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
385 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
386 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
387 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
389 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
390 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
391 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
392 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
395 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
396 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
398 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
399 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
401 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
402 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
404 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
407 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
408 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
409 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
411 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
412 header have been removed.
414 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
415 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
416 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
417 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
419 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
421 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
423 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
424 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
426 Security related changes:
428 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
429 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
430 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
431 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
432 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
433 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
434 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
436 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
437 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
438 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
440 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
442 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
443 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
444 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
445 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
446 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
447 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
448 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
449 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
450 invalid input drops valid char
451 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
452 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
453 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
454 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
455 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
457 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
458 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
459 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
460 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
462 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
463 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
464 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
465 for long double = double
466 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
468 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
469 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
470 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
472 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
473 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
475 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
476 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
477 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
478 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
479 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
480 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
481 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
482 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
483 not the default "nor"
484 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
485 false positives, change to modern flexible array
486 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
487 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
489 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
490 unnecessary librt dependencies
491 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
492 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
493 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
494 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
496 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
497 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
499 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
500 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
502 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
503 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
504 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
505 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
507 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
508 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
509 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
510 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
512 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
514 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
515 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
517 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
518 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
519 kernels and break testing
520 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
521 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
522 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
523 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
524 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
525 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
526 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
528 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
529 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
531 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
533 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
534 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
535 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
536 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
537 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
538 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
539 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
540 always implemented in the same library
541 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
542 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
543 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
551 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
552 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
554 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
555 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
556 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
557 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
558 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
561 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
563 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
564 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
566 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
567 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
568 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
569 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
570 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
571 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
572 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
573 process actually does not use HTM).
575 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
576 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
577 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
578 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
579 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
582 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
583 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
584 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
585 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
586 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
588 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
589 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
591 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
592 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
594 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
595 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
596 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
597 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
598 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
599 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
600 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
602 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
603 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
604 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
606 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
608 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
609 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
611 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
612 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
613 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
614 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
616 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
617 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
618 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
619 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
622 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
623 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
624 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
625 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
626 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
627 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
629 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
630 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
631 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
632 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
633 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
635 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
636 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
637 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
639 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
641 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
643 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
644 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
646 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
647 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
649 Security related changes:
651 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
652 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
653 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
655 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
656 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
657 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
658 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
661 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
662 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
663 or command injection issues in applications.
665 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
667 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
668 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
669 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
671 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
672 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
673 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
675 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
676 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
677 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
678 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
679 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
680 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
681 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
682 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
683 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
684 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
685 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
686 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
687 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
688 pointer argument is non-NULL
689 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
690 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
691 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
692 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
693 multithreads call popen
694 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
695 and pthread_create fails.
696 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
697 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
699 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
700 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
701 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
703 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
705 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
707 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
708 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
710 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
711 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
712 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
713 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
714 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
715 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
716 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
718 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
719 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
720 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
722 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
723 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
724 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
725 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
727 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
729 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
730 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
731 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
732 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
734 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
736 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
737 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
738 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
740 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
741 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
742 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
743 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
744 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
745 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
747 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
748 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
749 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
750 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
751 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
752 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
753 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
754 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
755 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
756 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
757 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
758 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
759 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
760 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
762 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
763 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
764 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
765 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
766 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
768 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
769 nearest rounding mode
770 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
771 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
772 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
773 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
774 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
775 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
776 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
777 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
778 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
780 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
781 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
783 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
784 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
785 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
786 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
788 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
790 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
792 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
794 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
795 answers will be rejected)
796 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
803 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
804 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
805 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
806 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
807 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
808 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
809 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
810 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
811 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
812 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
813 archive or binary locales.
815 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
816 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
817 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
818 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
819 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
820 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
821 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
822 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
823 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
824 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
825 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
828 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
829 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
830 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
831 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
832 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
833 field) to indicate such support is required.
835 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
836 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
837 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
839 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
840 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
842 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
845 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
848 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
851 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
854 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
855 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
856 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
857 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
860 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
861 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
863 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
866 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
867 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
868 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
869 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
870 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
871 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
872 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
873 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
875 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
876 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
877 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
878 the fstatat64 function.
880 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
881 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
882 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
883 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
884 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
885 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
886 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
887 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
888 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
890 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
891 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
892 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
893 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
894 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
895 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
896 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
897 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
898 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
899 results in a load failure now.
901 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
902 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
905 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
906 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
908 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
909 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
911 - call_once for function call synchronization.
913 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
914 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
916 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
918 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
920 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
922 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
923 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
924 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
926 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
927 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
928 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
929 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
930 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
931 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
933 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
934 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
935 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
936 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
937 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
938 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
941 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
942 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
943 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
944 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
945 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
948 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
949 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
950 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
952 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
954 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
955 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
956 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
958 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
959 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
960 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
961 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
963 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
964 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
965 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
966 for this function instead.
968 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
969 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
970 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
972 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
973 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
974 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
975 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
977 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
978 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
979 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
980 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
981 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
983 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
984 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
985 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
986 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
987 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
988 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
991 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
992 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
993 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
996 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
997 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
998 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1000 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1001 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1002 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1003 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1004 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1005 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1007 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1008 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1009 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1010 behavior in a future release.
1012 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1014 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
1016 Security related changes:
1018 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1019 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1020 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1021 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
1023 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1024 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1026 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1027 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1030 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1031 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1032 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1034 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1036 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1037 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1038 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1039 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1040 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1041 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1042 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1043 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1044 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1046 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1047 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1048 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1049 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1050 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1052 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1054 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1055 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1056 scope with -O1 and higher
1057 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1058 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1059 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1060 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1061 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1062 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1063 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1064 horrible machine code)
1065 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1067 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1068 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1070 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1071 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1073 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1074 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1075 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1076 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1077 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1079 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1080 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1081 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1082 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1083 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1085 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1086 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1087 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1089 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1090 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1091 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1092 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1093 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1094 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1095 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1096 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1097 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1098 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1099 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1100 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1101 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1103 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1105 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1106 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1107 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1108 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1109 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1110 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1111 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1112 for Spanish with CLDR
1113 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1114 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1115 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1116 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1117 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1118 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1120 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1122 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1123 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1124 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1125 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1127 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1128 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1129 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1130 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1131 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1132 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1133 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1134 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1135 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1136 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1137 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1138 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1139 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1140 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1141 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1142 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1143 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1145 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1146 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1148 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1149 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1150 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1151 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1152 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1153 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1155 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1157 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1158 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1159 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1160 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1161 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1162 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1163 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1164 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1165 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1166 and libc build with -Os)
1167 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1168 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1169 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1170 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1171 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1172 that changes /etc/passwd
1173 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1175 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1176 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1177 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1179 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1180 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1181 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1182 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1183 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1185 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1186 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1188 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1189 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1190 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1191 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1193 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1194 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1195 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1196 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1198 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1200 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1202 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1204 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1206 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1207 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1208 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1209 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1210 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1211 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1212 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1213 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1215 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
1222 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1223 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
1224 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
1225 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1226 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1227 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1228 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
1229 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1230 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
1232 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
1233 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1236 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1238 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
1240 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1241 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1242 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1243 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1244 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1245 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1246 from a security and performance perspective.
1248 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1249 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1250 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1251 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1253 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
1254 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1255 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1256 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
1257 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1259 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
1260 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
1261 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1262 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1265 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1266 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1267 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
1269 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
1271 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1272 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1275 * The copy_file_range function was added.
1277 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1279 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1280 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1281 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1283 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1284 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1285 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1286 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1287 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1288 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1289 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1291 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1292 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1293 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1294 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1295 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1296 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1297 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1299 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1300 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1301 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1302 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1305 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1306 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1307 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1308 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1310 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1311 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1312 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1314 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1315 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1316 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1318 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1319 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1320 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1326 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1328 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1329 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1330 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1331 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1332 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1333 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1334 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1335 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1336 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1339 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1340 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1341 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1343 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1344 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1345 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1346 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1347 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1348 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1349 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1350 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1351 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1352 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1353 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1354 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1355 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1356 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1357 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1358 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1359 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1360 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1361 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1362 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1363 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1364 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1365 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1366 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1367 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1368 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1370 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1371 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1373 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1374 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1375 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1376 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1377 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1378 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1379 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1381 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1382 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1383 exp10l for these functions instead.
1385 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1386 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1387 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1389 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1390 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1393 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1394 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1395 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1396 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1398 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1399 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1401 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1402 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1404 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1407 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1409 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1410 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1411 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1414 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1415 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1416 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1417 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1418 use, but predates the bits convention.
1420 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1422 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1425 Security related changes:
1427 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1428 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1429 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1430 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1433 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1434 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1435 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1436 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1438 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1439 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1440 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1443 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1444 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1445 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1447 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1448 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1449 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1450 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1452 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1453 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1454 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1457 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1458 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1459 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1460 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1461 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1463 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1464 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1467 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1468 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1469 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1471 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1472 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1473 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1475 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1476 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1477 small, instead of NULL.
1479 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1481 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1482 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1483 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1485 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1486 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1487 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1489 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1490 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1491 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1492 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1493 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1494 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1495 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1496 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1497 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1499 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1500 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1501 width Latin characters
1502 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1503 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1504 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1506 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1507 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1509 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1510 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1511 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1512 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1513 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1515 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1516 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1517 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1518 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1519 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1520 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1521 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1522 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1523 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1524 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1526 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1527 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1528 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1529 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1530 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1531 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1532 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1533 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1535 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1536 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1538 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1539 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1541 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1542 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1543 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1544 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1545 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1546 __regcall calling convention
1547 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1548 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1549 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1550 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1551 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1552 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1553 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1554 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1555 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1556 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1557 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1558 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1559 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1561 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1563 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1565 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1566 consistency check failures
1567 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1568 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1569 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1570 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1572 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1574 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1575 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1576 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1577 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1578 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1579 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1580 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1581 on memory allocation failure
1582 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1583 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1585 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1587 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1588 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1589 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1590 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1591 instead of EAI_NODATA
1592 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1593 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1594 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1595 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1597 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1598 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1599 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1600 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1601 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1602 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1603 allocation in syscall loops)
1604 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1605 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1606 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1607 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1608 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1609 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1610 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1611 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1612 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1614 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1615 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1616 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1618 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1619 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1621 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1623 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1624 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1625 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1626 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1627 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1628 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1629 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1630 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1631 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1632 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1633 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1634 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1635 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1636 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1637 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1638 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1639 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1640 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1642 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1644 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1645 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1647 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1648 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1649 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1650 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1652 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1653 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1654 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1655 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1656 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1657 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1658 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1659 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1660 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1661 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1662 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1664 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1665 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1666 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1667 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1668 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1669 the svid compat wrapper
1670 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1671 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1672 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1673 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1674 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1675 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1677 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1678 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1680 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1681 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1682 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1683 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1684 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1685 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1687 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1688 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1689 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1690 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1692 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1693 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1695 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1696 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1697 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1698 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1699 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1700 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1701 inside the ASCII printable range
1702 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1704 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1705 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1706 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1708 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1709 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1711 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1712 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1713 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1715 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1716 networking interface
1717 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1718 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1719 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1720 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1721 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1722 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1723 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1724 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1725 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1727 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1728 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1729 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1730 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1731 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1732 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1733 same as for Croatian
1734 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1735 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1736 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1738 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1740 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1741 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1742 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1743 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1744 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1746 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1747 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1748 modified in case of success
1749 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1750 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1752 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1754 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1755 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1756 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1757 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1758 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1759 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1760 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1761 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1763 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1764 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1765 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1766 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1767 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1768 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1769 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1770 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1771 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1773 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1774 elision and tunables
1775 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1777 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1778 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1779 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1781 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1782 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1784 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1785 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1786 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1787 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1788 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1789 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1790 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1791 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1792 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
1799 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1800 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1801 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1802 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1803 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1804 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1805 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1807 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1808 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
1809 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1810 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1811 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1812 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1813 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
1815 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1816 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1819 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
1821 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1822 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1823 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
1825 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1826 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1827 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1828 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1829 object are still limited to six search domains.
1831 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1832 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1833 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
1835 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1836 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
1838 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1839 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1840 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1841 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
1843 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1844 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1845 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1846 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
1848 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1849 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1850 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1851 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
1853 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1854 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1855 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
1857 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
1858 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1859 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1860 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
1862 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
1863 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1864 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1865 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1866 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1868 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1869 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1870 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1871 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1872 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1873 interfaces should be used instead.
1875 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1877 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1878 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1879 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1880 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1881 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1882 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1883 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1884 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1886 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1889 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
1890 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
1891 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1892 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1894 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1895 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1898 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1899 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1900 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
1901 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1902 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
1904 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1905 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1906 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1907 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1909 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1910 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1911 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1912 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1914 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1915 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
1917 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1918 exported by accident.
1920 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1921 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1922 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1924 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1925 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1926 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1927 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1929 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1931 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1933 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1936 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1937 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1939 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1940 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1942 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1943 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1944 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1945 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1946 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1947 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1948 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1949 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1951 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1952 synced with the kernel:
1954 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1955 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1957 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1958 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1959 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1961 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1962 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1964 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1966 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1967 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1970 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
1972 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
1973 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
1975 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1976 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1977 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1978 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
1979 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
1981 Security related changes:
1983 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
1984 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1986 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1987 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1989 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1990 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1993 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1994 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
1996 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1998 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1999 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2000 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2002 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2004 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2005 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2006 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2008 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2009 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2010 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2011 x86 and other generic code
2012 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2013 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2015 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2016 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2017 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2018 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2019 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2020 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2021 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2023 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2024 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2025 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2026 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2028 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2029 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2031 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2033 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2034 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2035 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2037 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2038 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2039 failures consistently
2040 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2041 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2042 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2043 frame-pointer on i386
2044 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2046 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2047 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2048 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2049 generic c code is used
2050 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2051 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2053 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2055 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2056 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2058 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2059 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2060 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2061 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2062 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2063 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2064 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2065 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2066 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2067 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2069 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2071 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2072 new posix_spawn implementation
2073 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2074 leads to lower CPU frequency
2075 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2076 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2077 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2078 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2079 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2080 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2081 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2082 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2083 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2084 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2085 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2086 not support gethostbyname4_r
2087 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2089 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2091 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2092 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2093 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2094 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2095 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2096 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2097 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2099 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2100 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2101 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2102 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2103 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2104 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2105 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2106 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2107 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2108 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2109 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2110 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2112 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2113 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2114 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2115 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2116 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2117 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2118 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2119 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2121 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2122 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2123 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2124 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2125 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2126 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2127 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2128 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2129 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2130 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2131 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2132 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2133 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2134 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2135 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2136 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2137 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2138 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2139 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2140 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2141 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2143 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2144 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2145 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2146 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2147 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2149 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2150 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2152 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2153 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2155 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2156 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2158 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2159 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2160 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2161 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2163 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2164 leading to relocation crash
2165 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2166 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2167 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2168 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2169 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2170 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2171 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2172 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2173 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2175 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2177 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2178 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2179 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2180 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2181 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2182 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2183 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2184 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2186 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2188 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2190 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2191 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2192 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2193 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2194 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2195 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2196 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2197 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2198 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2199 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2200 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2201 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2202 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2203 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2204 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2205 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2206 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2207 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2208 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2209 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2210 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2211 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2212 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2213 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2214 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2215 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2216 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2218 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2219 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2220 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2221 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2222 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
2227 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2228 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2229 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2232 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2233 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2234 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
2237 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2238 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2239 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2242 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2243 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2244 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2245 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2246 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2247 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2248 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2251 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2252 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2255 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2256 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2257 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2259 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2260 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2261 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2262 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2265 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
2266 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2267 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
2269 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2270 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
2271 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2272 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2273 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2274 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2275 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2276 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2277 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2278 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2279 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2282 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2284 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2286 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2287 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2288 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2290 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2291 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2293 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2296 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2298 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2300 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2301 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2303 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2305 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2306 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2308 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2309 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2311 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2312 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2313 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2315 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2316 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2317 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2318 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2319 effects of the memory clear).
2321 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2322 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2323 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2324 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2326 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2327 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2328 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2329 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2330 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2331 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2333 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2336 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2337 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2338 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2339 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2340 as large as several megabytes.
2342 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2343 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2346 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2347 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2348 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2349 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2350 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2351 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2352 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2354 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2355 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2356 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2357 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2359 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2360 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2361 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2364 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2365 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2366 They were already unimplemented.
2368 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2369 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2370 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2371 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2373 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2374 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2375 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2376 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2377 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2379 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2380 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2381 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2382 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2383 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2385 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2386 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2387 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2388 did not reflect that.
2390 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2391 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2392 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2393 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2394 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2395 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2396 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2399 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2400 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2401 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2402 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2404 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2405 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2406 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2407 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2409 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2410 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2413 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2414 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2417 Security related changes:
2419 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2420 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2421 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2422 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2423 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2425 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2426 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2427 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2428 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2431 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2433 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2434 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2436 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2437 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2438 before it started waiting
2439 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2440 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2441 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2442 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2444 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2445 library linked with pthread
2446 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2447 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2448 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2449 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2450 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2451 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2452 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2454 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2456 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2457 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2458 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2459 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2460 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2461 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2462 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2463 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2464 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2466 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2467 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2468 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2469 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2470 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2471 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2472 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2473 causes a segmentation fault
2474 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2476 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2477 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2479 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2481 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2482 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2483 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2485 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2486 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2488 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2489 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2490 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2491 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2492 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2493 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2494 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2495 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2497 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2498 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2499 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2501 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2503 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2505 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2506 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2507 cause transition penalty
2508 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2509 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2510 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2511 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2512 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2514 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2516 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2517 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2518 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2519 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2520 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2521 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2523 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2525 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2526 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2527 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2528 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2529 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2530 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2531 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2532 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2533 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2534 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2535 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2536 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2537 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2538 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2540 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2541 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2542 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2543 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2544 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2545 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2546 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2547 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2548 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2549 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2550 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2551 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2552 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2553 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2554 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2555 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2556 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2557 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2559 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2560 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2561 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2562 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2563 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2565 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2566 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2567 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2568 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2569 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2570 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2571 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2573 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2574 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2575 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2576 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2577 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2581 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2582 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2583 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2584 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2585 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2588 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2589 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2590 been included in previous releases.
2592 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2593 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2595 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2596 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2597 instead of “union wait”.
2599 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2600 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2601 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2602 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2603 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2604 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2605 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2607 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2610 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2611 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2614 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2615 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2616 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2617 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2618 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2621 Security related changes:
2623 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2624 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2625 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2627 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2628 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2629 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2630 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
2632 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2633 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2634 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2636 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2637 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2638 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2640 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2641 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2642 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2643 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2645 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2647 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2648 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2650 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2651 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2652 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2653 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2654 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2655 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2656 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2657 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2659 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2660 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2661 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2662 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2663 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2664 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2666 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2668 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2669 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2670 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2671 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2672 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2673 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2674 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2675 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2676 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2677 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2678 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2680 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2681 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2682 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2683 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2684 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2685 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2687 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2688 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2690 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2691 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2692 Romanian locale data
2693 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2695 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2696 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2698 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2699 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2700 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2701 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2703 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2705 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2706 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2707 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2708 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2709 when using RTLD_NEXT
2710 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2711 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2712 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2713 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2714 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2715 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2716 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2717 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2718 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2720 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2721 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2722 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2723 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2725 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2727 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2729 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2730 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2731 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2732 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2733 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2734 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2736 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2737 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2739 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2740 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2742 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2744 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2746 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2747 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2748 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2749 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2750 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2751 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2752 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2753 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2754 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2755 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2756 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2757 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2758 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2759 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2761 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2763 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2764 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2765 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2766 response to getaddrinfo
2767 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2768 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2769 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2770 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2771 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2772 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2774 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2775 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2776 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2778 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2779 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2780 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2781 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2783 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2784 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2785 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2787 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2788 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2789 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2790 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2791 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2792 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2793 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2794 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2796 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2797 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2798 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2800 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2801 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2802 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2803 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2804 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2805 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2806 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2807 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2808 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2809 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2810 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2811 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2812 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2814 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2815 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2816 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2817 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2819 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2820 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2822 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2823 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2824 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2825 AS not supporting AVX512
2826 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2828 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2829 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2831 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2832 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2833 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2834 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2835 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2837 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2838 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2840 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2841 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2842 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2843 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2844 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2845 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2846 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2847 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2848 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2850 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2851 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2852 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2853 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2854 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2855 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2856 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2857 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2858 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2859 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2860 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2861 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2862 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2864 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2865 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2866 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2867 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2868 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2870 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2871 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2873 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2874 "invalid" exceptions
2875 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2876 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2877 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2878 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2879 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2880 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2881 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2882 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2883 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
2887 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2888 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2889 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2890 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2891 89, 16061, and 18568.
2893 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2894 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2895 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2896 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2897 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2898 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2899 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2901 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2902 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2903 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2905 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2906 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2907 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2908 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2909 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2910 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2911 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2913 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2914 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2915 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2916 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2917 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
2918 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
2919 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2922 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2923 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2924 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2925 independent of the GNU C Library.
2927 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2928 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
2930 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2931 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2932 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2933 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2934 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2937 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2938 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
2940 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2941 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2942 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2943 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2944 defining their own copy.
2946 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2947 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2948 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2950 Security related changes:
2952 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2953 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2955 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2956 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2957 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2958 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2961 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2962 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2964 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2965 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2967 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2968 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
2969 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
2971 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2972 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2973 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2974 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2975 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2976 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2977 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2978 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2979 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2980 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2981 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2982 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2983 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2985 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2987 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2988 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2989 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2990 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2991 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2992 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2994 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2995 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2996 overflow/underflow errors
2997 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2999 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3000 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3001 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3002 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3003 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3004 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3006 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3007 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3008 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3009 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3010 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3011 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3012 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3013 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3014 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3016 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3018 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3019 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3020 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3022 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3023 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3024 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3025 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3026 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3028 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3029 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3031 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3032 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3033 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3034 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3035 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3036 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3037 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3038 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3040 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3041 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3042 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3043 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3044 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3046 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3047 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3049 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3050 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3051 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3052 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3053 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3055 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3056 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3057 (related to lock elision)
3058 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3059 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3060 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3061 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3063 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3064 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3065 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3066 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3067 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3068 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3069 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3070 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3071 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3072 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3073 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3074 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3075 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3076 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3077 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3078 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3079 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3080 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3081 contains a vector instruction exception.
3082 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3083 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3085 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3086 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3087 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3088 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3089 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3091 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3093 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3094 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3096 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3097 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3098 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3099 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3100 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3102 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3103 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3104 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3105 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3106 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3107 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3108 statically too large
3109 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3110 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3111 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3112 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3113 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3114 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3115 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3116 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3117 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3119 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3120 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3121 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3122 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3123 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3124 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3125 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3127 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3128 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3129 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3130 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3132 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3133 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3134 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3135 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3136 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3137 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3139 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3140 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3141 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3142 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3143 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3144 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3146 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3147 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3148 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3149 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3150 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3151 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3152 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3153 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3155 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3156 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3157 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3158 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3159 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3160 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3161 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3162 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3163 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3165 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3167 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3168 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3169 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3171 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3172 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3173 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3174 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3175 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3176 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3177 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3178 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3179 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3180 pthread_setaffinity_np
3181 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3182 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3183 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3184 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3185 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3187 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3188 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3189 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3190 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3191 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3192 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3193 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3195 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3196 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3197 for C99-based standards
3198 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3199 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3201 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3202 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3203 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3205 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3206 "inexact" exceptions
3207 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3209 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3210 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3211 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3212 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3214 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3215 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3216 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3217 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3218 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3219 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3220 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3221 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3222 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3223 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3225 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3226 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3227 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3228 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3230 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3231 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3232 error on 32-bit architectures
3233 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3234 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3235 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3236 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3237 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3238 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3239 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3240 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3241 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3243 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3245 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3246 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3247 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3248 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3250 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
3254 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3256 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
3257 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3258 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3259 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3260 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3261 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3262 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3263 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3264 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3265 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3266 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3267 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3268 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3269 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3270 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3271 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3272 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3273 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
3274 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3275 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
3277 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3278 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3280 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3281 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3282 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3283 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3284 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3285 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
3287 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3288 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3289 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3290 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3291 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3293 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3294 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3295 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3297 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3298 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3299 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3302 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3303 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3304 condition in some applications.
3306 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3307 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3309 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3310 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3311 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3312 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3313 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3315 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3316 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3317 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3318 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3320 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3321 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3322 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3324 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3325 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3327 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3328 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3329 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3331 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3332 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3333 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3337 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3339 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3340 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3341 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3342 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3343 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3344 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3345 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3346 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3347 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3348 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3351 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3352 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3353 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3354 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3357 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3358 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3359 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3360 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3361 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3362 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3364 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3366 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3367 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3368 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3370 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3371 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3372 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3373 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3374 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3375 effects being visible outside transactions.
3377 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3378 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3380 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3382 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3383 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3384 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3385 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3386 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3388 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3389 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3391 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3392 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3395 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3396 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3397 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3399 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3400 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3402 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3404 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3405 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3406 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3407 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3409 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3410 with newer versions of bison.
3412 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3413 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3414 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3415 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3416 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3417 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3418 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3419 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3420 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3421 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3422 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3423 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3424 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3426 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3427 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3428 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3429 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3430 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3434 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3436 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3437 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3438 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3439 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3440 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3441 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3442 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3443 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3444 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3445 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3446 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3447 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3448 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3449 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3450 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3452 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3453 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3454 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3455 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3456 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3457 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3458 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3459 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3460 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3461 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3463 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3464 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3465 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3466 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3467 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3469 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3471 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3472 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3474 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3475 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3476 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3477 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3478 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3479 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3481 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3484 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3485 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3486 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3487 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3488 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3489 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3490 test macros defined.
3492 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3494 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3495 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3496 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3497 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3498 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3499 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3502 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3503 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3504 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3505 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3508 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3509 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3510 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
3512 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3513 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3514 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3515 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
3517 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3518 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3519 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3520 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3521 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3522 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3523 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3526 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3527 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3528 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3529 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3530 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3531 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3532 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3533 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3534 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
3536 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3537 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3538 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3539 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3540 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
3541 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
3543 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3544 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3545 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3546 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
3550 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3552 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3553 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3554 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3555 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3556 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3557 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3558 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3559 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3560 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3561 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
3562 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3563 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3564 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3565 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3566 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
3567 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3568 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3569 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
3571 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3572 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3574 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3575 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3576 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
3577 extension which uses __block.
3579 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3580 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3581 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3582 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3583 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3585 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3586 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3587 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3588 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3591 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3592 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3593 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3594 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3595 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
3597 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3598 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3599 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3601 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3602 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3603 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3606 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3607 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3609 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
3610 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
3612 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3614 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3617 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
3619 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3621 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3622 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3623 for which the C library was built.
3625 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3626 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3627 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3628 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3629 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3630 in the following circumstances:
3632 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3634 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3635 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3637 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3638 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3640 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3641 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
3643 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3645 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3646 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3648 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
3650 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
3652 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
3654 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3655 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3656 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3657 disable some of those declarations.
3659 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
3660 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3661 that did nothing) has also been removed.
3663 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3664 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
3666 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3667 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3668 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3669 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3670 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3671 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3672 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3673 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3674 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3675 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3676 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3677 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3678 require recompilation.
3682 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3684 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
3685 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3686 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
3687 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3688 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3689 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3690 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3691 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3692 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3693 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3694 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3695 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3696 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3699 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3700 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3701 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3702 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3703 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3704 understands and accepts the risks.
3706 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3709 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3710 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
3712 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3713 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3714 destructor calls to glibc.
3716 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3719 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3720 non-x86 architectures.
3722 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3724 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3726 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3729 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3731 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3734 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3735 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3737 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3739 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3740 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
3742 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3743 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
3745 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3746 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3747 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3749 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3750 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3751 attributes of a process.
3753 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3754 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3755 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3756 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3759 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3760 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3762 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3766 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3768 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
3769 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3770 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3771 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3772 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3773 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3774 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3775 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3776 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3777 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3778 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3779 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3780 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3781 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3782 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
3784 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3786 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3787 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
3789 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3790 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3792 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3794 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3795 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3797 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3799 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3800 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3801 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3803 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3804 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3806 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3807 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3809 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3810 can be used with is 2.6.16.
3812 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3813 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3815 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3816 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
3817 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3818 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3820 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3821 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3823 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
3824 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
3827 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3828 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3829 information in --help and --version output.
3831 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3832 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3833 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3835 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3836 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3837 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3838 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3839 when the mode is enabled.
3841 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3842 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3843 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3844 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3845 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3846 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3847 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
3849 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3854 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3856 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3857 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3858 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3859 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3860 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3861 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3862 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3863 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3864 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3865 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3866 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3867 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3868 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3869 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3870 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3871 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3872 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3873 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3874 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3875 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3876 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3877 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3880 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3881 configuring glibc with:
3882 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3883 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3884 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3888 + define static_assert
3890 + do not declare gets
3892 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3894 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3895 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3896 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3899 + timespec_get added
3901 + uchar.h support added
3903 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3905 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3907 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
3909 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
3911 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3912 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3914 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3915 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3917 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3918 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3919 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3920 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3921 existing applications.
3923 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
3924 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3927 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3928 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3929 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3931 * New locales: mag_IN
3933 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3934 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3935 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3936 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3937 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
3939 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3941 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3944 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3946 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3947 without a previously built glibc.
3949 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3950 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3952 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3953 now supported for ARM processors.
3955 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3956 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3957 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3959 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
3961 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3962 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3963 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3964 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
3966 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3967 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3968 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3969 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3971 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3972 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3973 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3974 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3975 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3977 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3978 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3979 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3980 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
3984 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3986 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3987 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3988 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3989 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3990 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3991 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3992 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
3994 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3995 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3997 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3998 and support for initgroups lookups.
3999 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4001 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4002 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4004 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4005 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4007 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4008 on x86-32 and x86-64.
4009 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4011 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
4012 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4014 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4015 for x86-64 and x86-32.
4016 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4018 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4019 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4021 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4022 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4024 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4025 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4027 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4028 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4030 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4031 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4033 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4034 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4036 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
4038 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4039 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4041 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4042 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
4044 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
4048 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4050 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
4051 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
4052 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
4053 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4054 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4055 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4056 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4057 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4058 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4059 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4061 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4062 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4063 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
4064 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
4066 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
4067 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4068 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
4069 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4071 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
4072 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
4074 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
4075 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
4077 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
4079 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4080 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4082 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4083 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4084 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4085 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
4089 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4091 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4092 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4093 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4094 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4097 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
4099 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
4101 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4102 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
4103 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4107 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4109 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4110 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4111 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4112 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
4113 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4114 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4115 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
4116 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
4118 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
4120 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4122 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4124 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4125 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4126 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4128 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4129 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4130 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4131 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4132 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4134 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
4138 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4140 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4141 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4142 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4143 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4144 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4145 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4147 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4149 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4151 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
4152 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4154 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4155 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4157 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4159 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
4160 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
4161 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
4162 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4164 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
4165 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4167 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4169 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4171 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4172 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4174 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4175 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4177 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4178 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4180 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4181 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4182 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4183 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4184 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4185 necessity is every process again.
4186 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4188 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4189 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4191 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4192 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4194 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4195 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4196 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4198 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
4202 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4204 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4205 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4206 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4207 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4208 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4210 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
4211 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4213 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
4214 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4216 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
4217 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
4219 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4222 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
4223 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4225 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4226 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4228 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4229 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4231 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4232 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4234 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4235 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4236 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4238 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
4240 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
4241 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4243 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4244 and extend existing format specifiers.
4245 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4247 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4248 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4250 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4251 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4252 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4253 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4254 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4255 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4259 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4261 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4262 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4263 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4264 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4265 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4267 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
4268 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4270 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4271 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
4273 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4274 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4276 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4277 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4278 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4280 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4281 Implemented by Eric Blake.
4283 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
4285 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
4286 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4288 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4289 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4290 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4291 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4293 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4294 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4296 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4298 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4300 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4304 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4306 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4307 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4308 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4309 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4310 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4311 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4312 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4314 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4316 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4318 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4319 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4321 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4323 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4324 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4326 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4327 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4329 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4330 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4331 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4333 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4334 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4336 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4337 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4339 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4340 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4342 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4343 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4347 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4349 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4350 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4351 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4352 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4353 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4355 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4356 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4358 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4360 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4361 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4362 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4364 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4365 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4367 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4368 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4370 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4372 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4373 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4375 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4376 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4378 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4379 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4381 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4383 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4384 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4386 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4387 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4390 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4391 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4395 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4397 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4398 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4399 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4400 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4401 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4402 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4403 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4406 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4408 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4410 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4414 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4416 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4417 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4418 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4419 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4420 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4421 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4422 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4423 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4424 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4426 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4427 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4428 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4430 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4431 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4433 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4435 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4437 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4438 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4439 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4440 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4441 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4443 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4444 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4445 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4446 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4448 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4451 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4453 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4456 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4458 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4459 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4463 * More overflow detection functions.
4465 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4466 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4468 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4469 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4470 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4471 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4472 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4473 by Masahide Washizawa.
4475 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4476 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4478 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4479 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4480 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4481 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4483 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4484 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4486 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4488 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4489 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4490 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4492 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4493 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4495 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4496 for compatibility with some other systems.
4498 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4502 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4504 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4505 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4506 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4507 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4508 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4509 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4511 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4513 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4515 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
4519 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4521 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4522 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4523 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4524 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4526 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4530 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4531 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4533 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4534 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4535 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4537 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4538 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4540 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
4542 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4544 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4545 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4548 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4549 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
4550 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4552 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
4553 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4555 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4556 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4557 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4558 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4560 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4561 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4562 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
4563 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4565 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4566 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4567 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4568 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4569 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
4573 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4574 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4576 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4577 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
4579 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
4580 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4582 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4583 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4585 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4588 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
4591 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4596 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4597 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4598 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4599 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4600 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4601 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4602 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4603 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4604 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4606 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4607 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4608 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4610 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
4612 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4613 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
4615 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4616 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4618 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
4620 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4621 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
4623 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4624 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4625 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4626 of weak definition in ld.so.
4628 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4629 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4631 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4632 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
4636 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4639 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4640 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
4642 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
4643 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
4645 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4646 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
4648 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
4649 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4650 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4652 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4653 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
4655 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
4656 implementation of regex.
4658 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4661 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4662 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
4664 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4665 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4666 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
4668 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
4669 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
4671 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4672 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4673 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
4675 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4676 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4678 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4679 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4682 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
4686 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4687 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4689 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4690 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
4694 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4695 128-bit long double format.
4697 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4698 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
4700 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
4702 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4704 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4707 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4708 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
4710 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
4714 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
4715 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
4717 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4718 support Unicode 3.1.
4720 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4721 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
4723 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
4725 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
4726 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4727 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4729 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4730 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4732 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4733 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
4735 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
4739 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
4740 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4741 in float, double, and long double format.
4743 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
4744 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4745 128-bit long double format.
4747 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4748 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4749 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4750 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4752 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4753 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4754 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4756 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4757 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
4759 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4760 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
4762 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4763 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4764 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
4766 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4767 family of functions for Linux/S390.
4769 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4770 of functions for Linux/x86.
4772 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
4776 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
4777 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4778 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4779 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4780 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4781 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4784 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4785 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4787 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4788 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4789 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4790 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4792 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4797 only lists the names of the supported locales
4801 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4802 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4806 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4807 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4808 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4809 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4810 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4812 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4814 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4816 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
4818 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4819 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4820 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
4822 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4823 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4825 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4826 changed from the default "C" locale.
4828 * The usual bug fixes.
4832 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4833 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4836 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4838 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
4840 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4841 obviously requires a database library being available.
4843 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4845 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
4847 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4848 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4850 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4852 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4853 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4856 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4857 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4858 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
4860 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
4861 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4863 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4864 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4865 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4867 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4868 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4869 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4870 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4872 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4873 structures for the wide character tables.
4875 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4877 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
4879 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4881 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4884 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4886 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4888 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4890 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4892 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4894 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4895 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4896 implemented for Linux.
4898 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4899 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4900 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4903 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4906 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
4920 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4922 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4924 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
4926 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4928 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
4930 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
4932 * Update timezone data files.
4934 * lots of charmaps corrections
4936 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
4941 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4942 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4943 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4944 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4945 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4946 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4948 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
4949 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4951 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
4954 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4955 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
4957 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
4959 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
4962 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
4964 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4965 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
4967 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4970 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
4971 functions from ISO C 9X.
4973 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4974 real valued functions.
4976 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
4978 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4980 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
4982 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
4984 * Optimized string functions have been added.
4986 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
4988 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4990 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4991 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4993 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4994 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4998 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
5000 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
5002 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
5004 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5006 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5008 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
5010 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5011 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
5014 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5015 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
5017 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
5019 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
5021 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5022 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5024 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
5026 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5029 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5030 latest draft standards.
5032 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5034 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5035 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5036 addseverity NEW: Unix98
5037 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
5038 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5039 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5040 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5041 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5042 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5043 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5044 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5045 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5046 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5047 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
5048 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5049 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5050 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
5051 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5052 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5053 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5055 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5056 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5057 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5058 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5059 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5066 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5067 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5068 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5069 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5070 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5072 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5073 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5074 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5075 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5076 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5077 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5081 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5082 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5088 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5089 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5090 clearerr_locked REMOVED
5091 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5093 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5094 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5095 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5105 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5106 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5108 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5109 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5114 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5115 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5118 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5119 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5123 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5124 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5126 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5127 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5128 endutxent NEW: Unix98
5130 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5131 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5135 fattach NEW: STREAMS
5136 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5140 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5141 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5142 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5143 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5144 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5146 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5147 ferror_locked REMOVED
5148 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5149 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5150 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5151 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5152 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5153 fflush_locked REMOVED
5157 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5158 fileno_locked REMOVED
5170 fputc_locked REMOVED
5171 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5172 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5177 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5181 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5183 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5184 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5188 getchar_locked REMOVED
5190 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5191 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5193 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
5194 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
5195 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5196 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5197 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5198 getutxent NEW: Unix98
5199 getutxid NEW: Unix98
5200 getutxline NEW: Unix98
5201 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5202 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5203 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5204 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5205 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5206 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5208 iconv_close NEW: iconv
5209 iconv_open NEW: iconv
5210 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5211 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5212 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5213 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5214 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5215 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5216 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5217 isastream NEW: STREAMS
5218 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
5219 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5220 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5221 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5222 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5223 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5224 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5225 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5226 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5227 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
5228 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5229 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5230 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5231 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5232 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5233 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5238 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5239 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5240 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5241 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5242 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5244 makecontext NEW: Unix98
5245 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5248 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5252 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5253 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5254 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5255 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5256 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
5257 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5258 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5259 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
5263 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
5265 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5266 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5269 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5270 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5271 profil_counter REMOVED
5272 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5273 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5274 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5275 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5277 putchar_locked REMOVED
5278 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5280 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5281 pututxline NEW: Unix98
5285 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5286 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5287 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5288 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5290 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5291 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5293 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5294 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5295 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5297 sendfile NEW: kernel
5298 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5299 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5300 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5302 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5303 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5304 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5305 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5306 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5307 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5308 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5309 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5310 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5314 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5315 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5316 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5317 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5318 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5319 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5320 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5321 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5322 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5323 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5324 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5325 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5326 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5330 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5331 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5333 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5334 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5335 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5336 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5337 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5338 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5340 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5341 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5342 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5343 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5344 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5345 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5346 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5348 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5349 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5350 write_profiling REMOVED
5351 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5352 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5353 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5354 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5355 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5356 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5357 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5358 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5359 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5360 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5361 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5362 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5363 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5364 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5365 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5366 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5377 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5379 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5381 * rewrite of cbrt function
5383 * update of timezone data
5397 * add atoll function
5399 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5401 * fix math functions
5405 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5407 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5409 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5410 the ELF dynamic loader.
5412 * support for parallel builds is improved
5416 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5417 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5420 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5421 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5422 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5423 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5424 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5425 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5426 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5427 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5428 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5429 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5430 files in the ELF format.
5432 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5433 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5435 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5436 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5437 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5438 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5439 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5440 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5441 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5442 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5443 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5444 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5445 about dynamically linked binaries.
5447 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5448 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5449 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5450 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5451 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5453 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5454 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5455 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5456 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5457 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5459 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5461 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5462 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5463 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5464 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5465 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5466 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5467 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5468 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5469 NSS services available.
5471 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5472 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5473 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5475 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5476 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5477 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5479 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5480 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5481 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5482 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5484 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5485 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5486 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5488 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5489 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5490 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5492 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5493 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5495 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5496 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5497 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5498 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5500 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5501 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5502 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5504 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5505 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5506 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5507 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5508 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5509 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
5510 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
5511 the header file <printf.h> for details.
5513 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5514 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5515 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5516 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5517 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5518 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5519 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
5521 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5522 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5523 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5524 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5525 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5526 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5528 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5529 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5531 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5532 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5533 NSS scheme used in glibc.
5535 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5537 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5538 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5539 their use is discouraged.
5541 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5542 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
5544 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5545 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
5547 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5548 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5550 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5553 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5554 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
5555 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5556 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5557 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
5559 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5560 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5561 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5562 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
5564 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5565 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5567 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5568 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5569 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5570 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5573 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5574 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5576 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5577 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5579 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
5580 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
5581 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5582 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
5584 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5586 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5587 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5588 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5590 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5591 for arithmetic and string handling.
5593 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
5594 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5595 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5596 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5598 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5599 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5600 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5601 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5602 programs already written to use it.)
5604 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5607 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5610 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5611 a given effective group ID.
5613 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5614 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5615 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5616 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5618 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
5619 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
5620 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5621 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5622 doing the same thing.
5624 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5625 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5627 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
5628 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
5630 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5632 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5633 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5634 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
5635 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
5636 `-ldb' to get these functions.
5638 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5639 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
5641 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
5642 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5643 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5646 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5648 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5649 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5652 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5653 and writing the utmp file.
5655 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5658 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5659 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5660 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5662 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5663 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5665 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5666 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5669 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5670 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5671 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5672 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5674 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5675 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5676 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5678 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5679 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5680 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5683 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5686 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5689 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5691 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5692 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5693 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
5697 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5699 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5700 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5702 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5703 want to put themselves in the background.
5705 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5706 run without an operating system.
5708 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5709 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5711 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5712 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5714 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5716 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5717 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5720 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5723 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5724 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5728 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5729 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5730 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5732 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5733 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5735 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5736 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5738 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5740 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5742 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5745 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5746 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5747 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5749 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5751 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5752 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5753 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5755 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5756 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5757 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5758 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5759 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5762 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5763 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5764 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5765 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5766 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5769 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5770 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5774 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5775 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5777 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5778 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5779 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5781 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5782 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5783 address of the last character written.
5785 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5786 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5788 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5789 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5791 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5792 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5793 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5794 you dereference this pointer.
5796 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5797 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5799 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5800 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5801 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5802 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5804 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5805 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5806 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5807 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5811 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5812 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5813 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5814 in Emacs or the `info' program.
5815 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
5817 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5819 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5821 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5822 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5824 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5825 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5827 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5828 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5830 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5831 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5832 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5833 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5834 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5836 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5837 to the error code in `errno'.
5839 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5840 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5841 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5844 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5845 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5846 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5848 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5849 uniquely-named temporary file.
5853 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5854 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5855 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5857 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5860 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5861 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5863 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5867 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5868 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5869 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5870 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5872 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5873 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5874 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5876 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5877 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5879 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5880 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5881 made itself into a shared library.
5883 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5884 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5886 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5887 with limited length.
5889 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5891 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5893 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5895 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5896 function for traversing a directory tree.
5898 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5899 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5900 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5901 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5903 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5904 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5906 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5908 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5909 things to your strings.
5911 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5913 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5914 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5915 supporting those systems.
5917 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5918 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5919 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5920 configuration files.
5922 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5923 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5925 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
5926 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5929 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5930 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5931 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5932 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5933 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5934 required storage is not available.
5936 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5937 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
5939 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5940 latest files released from Berkeley.
5942 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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5952 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
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