Major new features:
+* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
+ transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
+ generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
+
* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
-* On Linux, the gettid function has been added.
+* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
+ twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
+ to the callback function.
+
+* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
+
+* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
+ alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
+ nan_TW, lzh_TW.
+
+* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
+
+* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
+ pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
+ larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
+ pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
+ overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
+
+* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
+ versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
+ since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
+ FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
+ link time reference, is gone.
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
+* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
+ support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
+ emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
+ behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
+ copy_file_range function will have to be run on kernels which implement
+ the copy_file_range system call. Support for most architectures was added
+ in version 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
+
* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
since glibc 2.17.
+* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
+ and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
+
+* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
+ resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
+
+* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
+ resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
+
+* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
+ BIND_NOW flag.
+
+* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
+ configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
+ subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
+
+* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
+ header have been removed.
+
+* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
+ deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
+ Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
+ bits, the getentropy function can be used.
+
Changes to build and runtime requirements:
* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
+ CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
+ via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
+ over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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