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12 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
13 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
14 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
15 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
16 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
17 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
19 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
20 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
21 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
22 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
24 * The gettimeofday function will no longer report information about a
25 system-wide time zone, expect for aarch64, powerpc, and x86 on Linux
26 which still uses the vDSO symbol (when available).
28 This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for many years, as it cannot
29 handle the full complexity of the world's timezones, but hitherto we have
30 supported it on a best-effort basis. Changes required to support 64-bit
31 time_t on 32-bit architectures have made this no longer practical.
33 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
34 will always receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
35 tz_dsttime fields are zero.
37 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
38 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
39 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
41 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
43 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
44 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
45 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
46 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
47 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
48 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
49 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
50 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
52 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
54 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
55 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
56 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
57 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
58 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
59 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
61 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
62 binaries and it has been removed from <time.h> header. This function
63 has been deprecated in favor of clock_settime.
65 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
66 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
67 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
68 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
69 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
71 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
72 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
73 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
74 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
76 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
77 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
78 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
79 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
80 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
81 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
83 Note that settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX.
84 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime and/or
85 the adjtime family of functions instead. We may also cease to make
86 settimeofday available to newly linked binaries after there is a
87 replacement for Linux's time-zone-like offset API.
89 * The obsolete functions ftime has been deprecated and will be removed from
90 a future version of glibc. Application should use clock_gettime instead.
92 * The sparc*-*linux-gnu configurations targeting v7 or order architecture
93 are no longer supported. For v8 only implementations with native CAS
94 instruction are still supported (such as LEON).
96 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
97 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
98 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
99 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
100 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
102 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
104 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
106 Security related changes:
108 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
109 environment variable during program execution after a security
110 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
111 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
112 program. Reported by Marcin KoĆcielnicki.
114 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
116 [The release manager will add the list generated by
117 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
124 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
125 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
126 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
128 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
129 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
131 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
132 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
133 to the callback function.
135 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
137 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
138 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
141 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
143 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
144 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
145 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
146 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
147 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
149 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
150 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
151 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
152 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
153 link time reference, is gone.
155 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
156 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
157 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
158 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
159 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
160 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
161 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
162 the clock choice at initialization time).
164 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
165 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
166 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
168 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
170 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
171 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
172 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
173 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
174 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
175 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
176 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
177 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
178 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
180 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
181 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
182 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
183 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
186 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
187 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
189 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
190 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
192 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
193 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
195 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
198 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
199 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
200 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
202 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
203 header have been removed.
205 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
206 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
207 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
208 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
210 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
212 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
214 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
215 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
217 Security related changes:
219 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
220 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
221 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
222 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
223 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
224 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
225 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
227 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
228 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
229 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
231 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
233 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
234 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
235 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
236 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
237 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
238 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
239 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
240 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
241 invalid input drops valid char
242 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
243 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
244 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
245 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
246 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
248 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
249 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
250 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
251 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
253 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
254 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
255 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
256 for long double = double
257 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
259 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
260 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
261 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
263 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
264 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
266 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
267 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
268 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
269 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
270 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
271 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
272 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
273 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
274 not the default "nor"
275 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
276 false positives, change to modern flexible array
277 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
278 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
280 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
281 unnecessary librt dependencies
282 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
283 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
284 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
285 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
287 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
288 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
290 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
291 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
293 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
294 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
295 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
296 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
298 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
299 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
300 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
301 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
303 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
305 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
306 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
308 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
309 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
310 kernels and break testing
311 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
312 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: â%sâ directive argument is null
313 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
314 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
315 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
316 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
317 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
319 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
320 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
322 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
324 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
325 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
326 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
327 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
328 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
329 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
330 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
331 always implemented in the same library
332 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
333 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
334 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
342 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
343 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
345 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
346 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
347 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
348 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
349 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
352 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
354 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
355 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
357 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
358 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
359 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
360 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
361 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
362 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
363 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
364 process actually does not use HTM).
366 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
367 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
368 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
369 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
370 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
373 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
374 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
375 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
376 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
377 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
379 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
380 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
382 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
383 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
385 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
386 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
387 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
388 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
389 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
390 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
391 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
393 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
394 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
395 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
397 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
399 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
400 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
402 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
403 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
404 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
405 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
407 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
408 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
409 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
410 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
413 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
414 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
415 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
416 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
417 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
418 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
420 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
421 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
422 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
423 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
424 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
426 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
427 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
428 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
430 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
432 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
434 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
435 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
437 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
438 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
440 Security related changes:
442 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
443 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
444 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
446 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
447 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
448 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
449 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
452 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
453 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
454 or command injection issues in applications.
456 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
458 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
459 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
460 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
462 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
463 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
464 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
466 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
467 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
468 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
469 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
470 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
471 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
472 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
473 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
474 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
475 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
476 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
477 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
478 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
479 pointer argument is non-NULL
480 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
481 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
482 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
483 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
484 multithreads call popen
485 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
486 and pthread_create fails.
487 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
488 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
490 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
491 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
492 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
494 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
496 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
498 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
499 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
501 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
502 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
503 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
504 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
505 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
506 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
507 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
509 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
510 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
511 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
513 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
514 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
515 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
516 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
518 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
520 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
521 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
522 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
523 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
525 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
527 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
528 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
529 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
531 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
532 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
533 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
534 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
535 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
536 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
538 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
539 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
540 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
541 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
542 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
543 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
544 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
545 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
546 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
547 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
548 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
549 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
550 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
551 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
553 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
554 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
555 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
556 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
557 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
559 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
560 nearest rounding mode
561 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
562 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
563 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
564 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
565 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
566 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
567 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
568 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
569 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
571 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
572 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
574 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
575 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
576 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
577 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
579 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
581 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
583 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
585 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
586 answers will be rejected)
587 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
594 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
595 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
596 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
597 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
598 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
599 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
600 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
601 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
602 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
603 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
604 archive or binary locales.
606 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
607 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
608 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
609 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
610 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
611 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
612 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
613 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
614 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
615 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
616 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
619 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
620 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
621 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
622 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
623 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
624 field) to indicate such support is required.
626 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
627 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
628 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
630 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
631 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
633 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
636 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
639 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
642 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
645 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
646 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
647 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
648 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
651 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
652 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
654 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
657 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
658 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
659 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
660 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
661 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
662 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
663 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
664 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
666 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
667 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
668 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
669 the fstatat64 function.
671 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
672 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
673 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
674 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
675 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
676 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
677 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
678 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
679 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
681 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
682 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
683 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
684 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
685 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
686 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
687 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
688 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
689 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
690 results in a load failure now.
692 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
693 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
696 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
697 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
699 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
700 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
702 - call_once for function call synchronization.
704 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
705 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
707 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
709 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
711 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
713 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
714 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
715 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
717 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
718 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
719 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
720 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
721 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
722 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
724 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
725 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
726 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
727 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
728 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
729 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
732 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
733 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
734 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
735 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
736 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
739 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
740 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
741 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
743 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
745 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
746 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
747 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
749 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
750 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
751 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
752 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
754 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
755 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
756 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
757 for this function instead.
759 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
760 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
761 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
763 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
764 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
765 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
766 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
768 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
769 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
770 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
771 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
772 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
774 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
775 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
776 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
777 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
778 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
779 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
782 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
783 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
784 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
787 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
788 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
789 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
791 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
792 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
793 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
794 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
795 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
796 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
798 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
799 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
800 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
801 behavior in a future release.
803 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
805 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
807 Security related changes:
809 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
810 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
811 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
812 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
814 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
815 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
817 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
818 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
821 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
822 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
823 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
825 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
827 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
828 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
829 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
830 when __WORDSIZE != 64
831 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
832 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
833 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
834 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
835 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
837 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
838 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
839 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
840 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
841 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
843 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
845 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
846 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
847 scope with -O1 and higher
848 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
849 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
850 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
851 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
852 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
853 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
854 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
855 horrible machine code)
856 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
858 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
859 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
861 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
862 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
864 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
865 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
866 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
867 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
868 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
870 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
871 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
872 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
873 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
874 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
876 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
877 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
878 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
880 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
881 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
882 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
883 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
884 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
885 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
886 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
887 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
888 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
889 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
890 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
891 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
892 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
894 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
896 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
897 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
898 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
899 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
900 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
901 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
902 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
903 for Spanish with CLDR
904 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
905 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
906 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
907 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
908 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
909 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
911 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
913 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
914 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
915 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
916 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
918 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
919 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
920 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
921 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
922 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
923 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
924 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
925 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
926 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
927 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
928 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
929 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
930 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
931 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
932 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
933 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
934 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
936 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
937 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
939 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
940 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
941 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
942 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
943 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
944 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
946 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
948 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
949 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
950 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
951 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
952 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
953 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
954 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
955 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
956 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
957 and libc build with -Os)
958 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
959 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
960 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
961 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
962 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
963 that changes /etc/passwd
964 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
966 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
967 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
968 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
970 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
971 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
972 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
973 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
974 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
976 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
977 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
979 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
980 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
981 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
982 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
984 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
985 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
986 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
987 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
989 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
991 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
993 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
995 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
997 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
998 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
999 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1000 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1001 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1002 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1003 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1004 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1006 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
1013 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1014 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
1015 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
1016 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1017 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1018 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1019 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
1020 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1021 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
1023 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
1024 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1027 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1029 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
1031 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1032 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1033 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1034 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1035 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1036 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1037 from a security and performance perspective.
1039 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1040 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1041 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1042 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1044 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
1045 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1046 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1047 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
1048 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1050 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
1051 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
1052 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1053 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1056 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1057 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1058 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
1060 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
1062 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1063 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1066 * The copy_file_range function was added.
1068 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1070 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1071 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1072 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1074 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1075 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1076 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1077 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1078 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1079 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1080 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1082 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1083 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1084 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1085 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1086 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1087 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1088 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1090 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1091 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1092 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1093 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1096 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1097 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1098 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1099 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1101 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1102 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1103 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1105 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1106 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1107 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1109 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1110 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1111 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1117 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1119 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1120 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1121 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1122 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1123 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1124 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1125 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1126 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1127 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1130 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1131 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1132 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1134 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1135 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1136 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1137 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1138 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1139 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1140 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1141 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1142 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1143 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1144 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1145 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1146 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1147 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1148 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1149 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1150 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1151 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1152 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1153 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1154 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1155 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1156 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1157 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1158 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1159 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1161 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1162 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1164 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1165 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1166 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1167 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1168 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1169 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1170 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1172 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1173 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1174 exp10l for these functions instead.
1176 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1177 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1178 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1180 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1181 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1184 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1185 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1186 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1187 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1189 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1190 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1192 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1193 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1195 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1198 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1200 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1201 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1202 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1205 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1206 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1207 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1208 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1209 use, but predates the bits convention.
1211 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1213 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1216 Security related changes:
1218 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1219 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1220 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1221 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1224 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1225 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1226 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1227 Reported by Tim RĂŒhsen.
1229 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1230 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1231 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1234 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1235 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1236 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim RĂŒhsen.
1238 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1239 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1240 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1241 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1243 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1244 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1245 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1248 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1249 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1250 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1251 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1252 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1254 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1255 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1258 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1259 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1260 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1262 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1263 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1264 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1266 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1267 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1268 small, instead of NULL.
1270 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1272 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1273 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1274 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1276 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1277 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1278 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1280 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1281 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1282 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1283 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1284 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1285 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1286 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1287 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1288 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1290 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1291 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1292 width Latin characters
1293 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1294 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1295 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1297 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1298 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1300 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1301 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1302 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1303 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1304 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1306 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1307 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1308 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1309 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1310 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1311 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1312 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1313 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1314 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1315 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1317 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1318 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1319 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1320 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1321 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1322 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1323 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1324 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new MĂskitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1326 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1327 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1329 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1330 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1332 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1333 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1334 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1335 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1336 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1337 __regcall calling convention
1338 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1339 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1340 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1341 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1342 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1343 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1344 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1345 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1346 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1347 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1348 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1349 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1350 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1352 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1354 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1356 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1357 consistency check failures
1358 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1359 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1360 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1361 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1363 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1365 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1366 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1367 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1368 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1369 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1370 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1371 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1372 on memory allocation failure
1373 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1374 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1376 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1378 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1379 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1380 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1381 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1382 instead of EAI_NODATA
1383 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1384 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1385 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1386 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1388 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1389 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1390 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1391 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1392 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1393 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1394 allocation in syscall loops)
1395 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1396 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1397 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1398 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1399 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1400 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1401 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1402 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1403 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1405 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1406 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1407 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1409 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1410 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1412 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1414 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1415 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1416 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1417 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1418 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1419 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1420 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1421 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1422 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1423 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1424 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1425 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1426 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1427 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1428 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1429 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1430 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1431 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1433 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1435 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1436 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1438 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1439 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1440 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1441 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1443 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1444 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1445 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1446 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1447 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1448 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1449 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1450 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1451 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1452 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1453 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1455 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1456 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1457 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1458 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1459 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1460 the svid compat wrapper
1461 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1462 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1463 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1464 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1465 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1466 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1468 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1469 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1471 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1472 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1473 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1474 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1475 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1476 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1478 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1479 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1480 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1481 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1483 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1484 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1486 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1487 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1488 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1489 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1490 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1491 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1492 inside the ASCII printable range
1493 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1495 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1496 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1497 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1499 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1500 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1502 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1503 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1504 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1506 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1507 networking interface
1508 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1509 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1510 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1511 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1512 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1513 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1514 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1515 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1516 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1518 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1519 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1520 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1521 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1522 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1523 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1524 same as for Croatian
1525 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1526 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1527 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1529 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1531 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1532 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1533 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1534 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1535 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1537 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1538 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1539 modified in case of success
1540 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option â-no-pieâ
1541 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1543 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1545 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1546 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1547 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1548 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1549 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1550 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1551 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1552 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1554 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1555 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1556 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1557 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1558 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1559 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1560 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1561 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1562 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1564 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1565 elision and tunables
1566 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1568 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1569 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1570 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1572 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1573 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1575 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1576 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1577 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1578 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1579 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1580 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1581 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1582 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1583 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
1590 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1591 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1592 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1593 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1594 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1595 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1596 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1598 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1599 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
1600 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1601 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1602 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1603 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1604 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
1606 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1607 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1610 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
1612 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1613 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1614 âno-reloadâ (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
1616 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1617 (configured using the âsearchâ directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1618 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1619 compatibility, applications that directly modify the â_resâ global
1620 object are still limited to six search domains.
1622 - When the ârotateâ (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1623 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1624 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
1626 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1627 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
1629 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1630 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1631 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1632 Dennis Wölfing and RĂŒdiger Sonderfeld.
1634 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1635 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1636 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1637 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
1639 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1640 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1641 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1642 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
1644 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1645 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1646 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
1648 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
1649 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1650 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1651 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
1653 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
1654 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1655 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1656 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1657 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1659 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1660 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1661 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1662 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1663 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1664 interfaces should be used instead.
1666 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1668 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1669 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1670 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1671 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1672 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1673 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1674 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1675 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1677 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1680 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
1681 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
1682 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1683 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1685 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1686 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1689 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1690 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1691 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
1692 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1693 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
1695 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1696 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1697 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1698 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1700 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1701 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1702 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1703 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1705 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1706 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
1708 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1709 exported by accident.
1711 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1712 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1713 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1715 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1716 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1717 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1718 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1720 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1722 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1724 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1727 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1728 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1730 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1731 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1733 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1734 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1735 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1736 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1737 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1738 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1739 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1740 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1742 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1743 synced with the kernel:
1745 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1746 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1748 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1749 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1750 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1752 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1753 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1755 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1757 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1758 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1761 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
1763 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
1764 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
1766 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1767 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1768 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1769 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
1770 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
1772 Security related changes:
1774 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
1775 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1777 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1778 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1780 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1781 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1784 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1785 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
1787 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1789 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1790 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1791 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1793 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1795 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1796 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1797 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1799 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1800 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1801 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1802 x86 and other generic code
1803 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1804 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1806 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1807 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1808 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1809 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1810 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1811 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1812 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1814 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1815 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1816 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1817 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1819 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1820 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1822 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1824 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1825 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1826 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale AwajĂșn / Aguaruna (agr)
1828 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1829 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1830 failures consistently
1831 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1832 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1833 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1834 frame-pointer on i386
1835 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1837 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1838 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1839 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1840 generic c code is used
1841 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1842 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1844 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1846 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1847 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1849 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1850 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1851 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1852 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1853 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1854 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1855 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1856 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1857 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1858 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1860 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1862 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1863 new posix_spawn implementation
1864 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1865 leads to lower CPU frequency
1866 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1867 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1868 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1869 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1870 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1871 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1872 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1873 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1874 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1875 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1876 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1877 not support gethostbyname4_r
1878 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1880 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1882 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1883 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1884 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1885 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1886 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1887 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1888 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1890 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1891 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1892 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1893 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1894 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1895 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1896 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1897 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1898 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1899 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1900 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1901 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1903 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1904 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1905 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1906 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1907 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1908 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1909 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1910 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1912 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1913 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1914 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1915 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1916 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1917 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1918 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1919 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1920 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1921 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1922 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1923 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1924 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1925 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1926 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1927 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1928 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1929 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1930 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1931 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1932 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1934 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1935 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1936 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1937 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1938 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1940 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1941 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1943 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1944 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1946 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1947 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1949 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1950 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1951 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1952 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1954 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1955 leading to relocation crash
1956 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1957 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1958 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1959 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1960 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1961 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef âpthread_attr_tâ
1962 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1963 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1964 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1966 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1968 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1969 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1970 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1971 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1972 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1973 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1974 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1975 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1977 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1979 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (âabdayâ) for
1981 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1982 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1983 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1984 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1985 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1986 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1987 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1988 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1989 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1990 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1991 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1992 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1993 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1994 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1995 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1996 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1997 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1998 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1999 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2000 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2001 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2002 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2003 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2004 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2005 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2006 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2007 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2009 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2010 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2011 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2012 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2013 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
2018 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2019 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2020 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2023 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2024 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2025 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
2028 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2029 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2030 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2033 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2034 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2035 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2036 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2037 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2038 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2039 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2042 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2043 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2046 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2047 means that in a future release, the macros âmajorâ, âminorâ, and âmakedevâ
2048 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2050 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2051 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2052 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2053 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2056 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
2057 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2058 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
2060 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2061 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
2062 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2063 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2064 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2065 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2066 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2067 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2068 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2069 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2070 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2073 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2075 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2077 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2078 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2079 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2081 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2082 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2084 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2087 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2089 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2091 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2092 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2094 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2096 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2097 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2099 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2100 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2102 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2103 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2104 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2106 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2107 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2108 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2109 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2110 effects of the memory clear).
2112 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2113 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2114 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2115 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2117 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2118 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2119 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2120 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2121 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2122 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2124 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2127 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2128 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2129 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2130 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2131 as large as several megabytes.
2133 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2134 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2137 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2138 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2139 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2140 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2141 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2142 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2143 be rebuilt by re-running â./configure; makeâ in the Emacs build tree.
2145 * The âip6-dotintâ and âno-ip6-dotintâ resolver options, and the
2146 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2147 âno-ip6-dotintâ had already been the default, and support for the
2148 âip6-dotintâ option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2150 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2151 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2152 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2155 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2156 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2157 They were already unimplemented.
2159 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2160 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2161 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2162 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2164 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2165 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2166 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2167 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2168 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2170 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2171 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2172 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2173 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2174 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2176 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2177 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2178 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2179 did not reflect that.
2181 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2182 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2183 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2184 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2185 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2186 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2187 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2190 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2191 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2192 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2193 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2195 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2196 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2197 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2198 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2200 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2201 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2204 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2205 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2208 Security related changes:
2210 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2211 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2212 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2213 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2214 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2216 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2217 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2218 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2219 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2222 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2224 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2225 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2227 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2228 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2229 before it started waiting
2230 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2231 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2232 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2233 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2235 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2236 library linked with pthread
2237 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2238 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2239 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2240 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2241 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2242 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2243 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2245 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2247 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2248 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2249 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2250 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2251 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2252 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2253 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2254 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2255 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2257 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2258 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2259 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2260 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2261 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2262 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2263 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2264 causes a segmentation fault
2265 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2267 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2268 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2270 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2272 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2273 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2274 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2276 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2277 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2279 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2280 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2281 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2282 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2283 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2284 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2285 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2286 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2288 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2289 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2290 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2292 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2294 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2296 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2297 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2298 cause transition penalty
2299 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2300 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2301 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2302 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2303 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2305 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2307 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2308 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2309 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2310 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2311 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2312 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2314 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2316 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2317 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2318 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2319 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2320 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2321 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2322 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2323 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2324 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2325 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2326 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2327 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2328 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2329 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2331 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2332 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2333 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2334 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2335 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2336 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2337 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2338 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2339 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2340 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2341 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2342 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2343 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2344 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2345 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2346 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2347 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2348 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2350 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2351 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2352 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2353 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2354 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2356 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2357 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2358 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2359 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2360 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2361 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2362 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2364 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2365 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2366 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2367 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2368 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2372 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2373 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2374 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2375 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2376 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2379 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2380 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2381 been included in previous releases.
2383 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2384 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2386 * The type âunion waitâ has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2387 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2388 instead of âunion waitâ.
2390 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2391 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2392 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2393 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2394 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2395 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2396 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2398 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2401 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2402 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2405 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2406 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2407 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2408 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2409 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2412 Security related changes:
2414 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2415 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2416 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2418 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2419 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2420 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2421 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
2423 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2424 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2425 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2427 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2428 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2429 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2431 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2432 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2433 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2434 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2436 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2438 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2439 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2441 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2442 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2443 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2444 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2445 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2446 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2447 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2448 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2450 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2451 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2452 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2453 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2454 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2455 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2457 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2459 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2460 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2461 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2462 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2463 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2464 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2465 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2466 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2467 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2468 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2469 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2471 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2472 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2473 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2474 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2475 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2476 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2478 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2479 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2481 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2482 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2483 Romanian locale data
2484 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2486 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2487 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2489 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2490 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2491 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2492 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2494 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2496 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2497 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2498 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2499 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2500 when using RTLD_NEXT
2501 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2502 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2503 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2504 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2505 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2506 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2507 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2508 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2509 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2511 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2512 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2513 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2514 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2516 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2518 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2520 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2521 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2522 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2523 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2524 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2525 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2527 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2528 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2530 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2531 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2533 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2535 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2537 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2538 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2539 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2540 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2541 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2542 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2543 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2544 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2545 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2546 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2547 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2548 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2549 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2550 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2552 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2554 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2555 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2556 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2557 response to getaddrinfo
2558 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2559 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2560 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2561 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2562 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2563 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2565 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2566 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2567 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2569 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2570 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2571 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2572 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2574 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2575 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2576 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2578 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2579 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2580 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2581 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2582 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2583 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2584 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2585 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2587 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2588 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2589 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2591 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2592 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2593 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2594 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2595 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2596 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2597 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2598 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2599 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2600 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2601 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2602 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2603 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2605 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2606 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2607 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2608 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2610 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2611 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2613 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2614 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2615 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2616 AS not supporting AVX512
2617 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2619 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2620 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2622 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2623 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2624 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2625 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2626 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2628 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2629 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2631 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2632 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2633 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2634 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2635 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2636 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2637 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2638 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2639 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2641 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2642 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2643 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2644 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2645 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2646 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2647 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2648 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2649 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2650 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2651 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2652 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2653 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2655 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2656 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2657 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2658 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2659 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2661 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2662 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2664 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2665 "invalid" exceptions
2666 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2667 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2668 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2669 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2670 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2671 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2672 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2673 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2674 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
2678 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2679 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2680 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2681 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2682 89, 16061, and 18568.
2684 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2685 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2686 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2687 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2688 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2689 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2690 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2692 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2693 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2694 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2696 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2697 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2698 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2699 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2700 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2701 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2702 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2704 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2705 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2706 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2707 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2708 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
2709 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
2710 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2713 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2714 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2715 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2716 independent of the GNU C Library.
2718 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2719 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
2721 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2722 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2723 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2724 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2725 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2728 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2729 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
2731 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2732 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2733 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2734 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2735 defining their own copy.
2737 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2738 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2739 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2741 Security related changes:
2743 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2744 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2746 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2747 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2748 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2749 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2752 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2753 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2755 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2756 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2758 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2759 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
2760 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
2762 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2763 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2764 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2765 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2766 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2767 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2768 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2769 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2770 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2771 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2772 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2773 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2774 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2776 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2778 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate ÊÞÄ
2779 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2780 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2781 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2782 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2783 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2785 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2786 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2787 overflow/underflow errors
2788 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2790 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2791 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2792 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2793 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2794 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2795 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2797 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2798 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2799 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2800 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2801 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2802 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2803 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2804 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2805 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2807 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2809 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2810 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2811 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2813 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2814 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2815 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2816 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2817 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2819 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2820 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2822 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2823 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2824 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2825 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2826 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2827 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2828 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2829 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2831 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2832 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2833 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2834 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2835 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2837 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2838 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2840 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2841 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2842 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2843 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2844 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2846 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2847 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2848 (related to lock elision)
2849 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2850 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2851 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2852 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2854 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2855 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2856 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2857 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2858 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2859 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2860 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2861 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2862 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2863 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2864 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2865 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2866 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2867 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2868 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2869 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2870 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2871 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2872 contains a vector instruction exception.
2873 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2874 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2876 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2877 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2878 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2879 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2880 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2882 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2884 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2885 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2887 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2888 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2889 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2890 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2891 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2893 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2894 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2895 error: canât find a register in class âR1_REGSâ while reloading âasmâ
2896 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2897 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2898 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2899 statically too large
2900 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2901 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2902 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2903 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2904 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2905 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2906 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2907 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2908 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2910 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2911 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2912 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2913 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2914 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2915 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2916 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2918 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2919 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2920 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2921 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2923 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2924 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2925 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2926 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2927 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2928 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2930 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2931 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2932 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2933 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2934 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2935 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2937 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2938 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2939 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2940 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2941 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2942 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2943 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2944 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2946 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2947 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2948 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2949 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2950 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2951 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2952 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2953 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2954 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2956 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2958 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2959 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2960 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2962 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2963 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2964 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2965 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2966 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2967 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2968 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2969 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2970 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2971 pthread_setaffinity_np
2972 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2973 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2974 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2975 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2976 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2978 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2979 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2980 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2981 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2982 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2983 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2984 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2986 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2987 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2988 for C99-based standards
2989 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2990 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2992 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2993 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2994 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2996 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2997 "inexact" exceptions
2998 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3000 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3001 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3002 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3003 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3005 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3006 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3007 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3008 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3009 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3010 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3011 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3012 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3013 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3014 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3016 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3017 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3018 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3019 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3021 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3022 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3023 error on 32-bit architectures
3024 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3025 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3026 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3027 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3028 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3029 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3030 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3031 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3032 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3034 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3036 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3037 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3038 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3039 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3041 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
3045 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3047 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
3048 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3049 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3050 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3051 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3052 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3053 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3054 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3055 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3056 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3057 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3058 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3059 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3060 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3061 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3062 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3063 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3064 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
3065 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3066 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
3068 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3069 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3071 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3072 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3073 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3074 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3075 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3076 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
3078 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3079 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3080 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3081 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3082 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3084 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3085 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3086 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3088 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3089 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3090 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3093 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3094 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3095 condition in some applications.
3097 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3098 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3100 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3101 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3102 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3103 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3104 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3106 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3107 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3108 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3109 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3111 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3112 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3113 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3115 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3116 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3118 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3119 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3120 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3122 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3123 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3124 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3128 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3130 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3131 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3132 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3133 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3134 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3135 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3136 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3137 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3138 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3139 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3142 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3143 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3144 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3145 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3148 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3149 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3150 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3151 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3152 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3153 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3155 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3157 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3158 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3159 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3161 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3162 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3163 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3164 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3165 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3166 effects being visible outside transactions.
3168 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3169 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3171 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3173 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3174 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3175 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3176 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3177 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3179 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3180 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3182 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3183 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3186 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3187 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3188 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3190 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3191 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3193 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3195 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3196 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3197 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3198 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3200 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3201 with newer versions of bison.
3203 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3204 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3205 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3206 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3207 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3208 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3209 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3210 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3211 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3212 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3213 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3214 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3215 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3217 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3218 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3219 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3220 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3221 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3225 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3227 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3228 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3229 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3230 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3231 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3232 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3233 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3234 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3235 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3236 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3237 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3238 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3239 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3240 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3241 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3243 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3244 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3245 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3246 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3247 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3248 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3249 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3250 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3251 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3252 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3254 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3255 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3256 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3257 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3258 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3260 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3262 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3263 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3265 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3266 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3267 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3268 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3269 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3270 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3272 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3275 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3276 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3277 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3278 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3279 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3280 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3281 test macros defined.
3283 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3285 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3286 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3287 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3288 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3289 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3290 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3293 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3294 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3295 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3296 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3299 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3300 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3301 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
3303 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3304 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3305 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3306 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
3308 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3309 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3310 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3311 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3312 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3313 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3314 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3317 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3318 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3319 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3320 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3321 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3322 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3323 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3324 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3325 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
3327 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3328 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3329 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3330 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3331 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
3332 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
3334 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3335 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3336 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3337 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
3341 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3343 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3344 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3345 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3346 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3347 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3348 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3349 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3350 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3351 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3352 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
3353 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3354 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3355 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3356 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3357 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
3358 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3359 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3360 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
3362 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3363 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3365 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3366 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3367 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
3368 extension which uses __block.
3370 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3371 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3372 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3373 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3374 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3376 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3377 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3378 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3379 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3382 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3383 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3384 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3385 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3386 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
3388 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3389 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3390 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3392 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3393 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3394 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3397 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3398 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3400 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
3401 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
3403 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3405 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3408 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
3410 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3412 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3413 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3414 for which the C library was built.
3416 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3417 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3418 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3419 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3420 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3421 in the following circumstances:
3423 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3425 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3426 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3428 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3429 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3431 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3432 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
3434 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3436 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3437 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3439 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
3441 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
3443 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
3445 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3446 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3447 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3448 disable some of those declarations.
3450 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
3451 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3452 that did nothing) has also been removed.
3454 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3455 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
3457 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3458 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3459 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3460 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3461 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3462 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3463 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3464 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3465 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3466 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3467 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3468 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3469 require recompilation.
3473 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3475 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
3476 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3477 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
3478 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3479 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3480 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3481 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3482 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3483 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3484 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3485 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3486 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3487 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3490 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3491 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3492 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3493 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3494 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3495 understands and accepts the risks.
3497 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3500 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3501 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
3503 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3504 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3505 destructor calls to glibc.
3507 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3510 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3511 non-x86 architectures.
3513 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3515 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3517 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3520 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3522 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3525 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3526 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3528 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3530 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3531 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
3533 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3534 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
3536 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3537 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3538 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3540 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3541 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3542 attributes of a process.
3544 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3545 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3546 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3547 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3550 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3551 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3553 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3557 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3559 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
3560 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3561 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3562 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3563 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3564 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3565 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3566 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3567 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3568 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3569 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3570 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3571 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3572 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3573 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
3575 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3577 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3578 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
3580 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3581 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3583 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3585 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3586 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3588 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3590 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3591 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3592 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3594 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3595 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3597 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3598 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3600 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3601 can be used with is 2.6.16.
3603 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3604 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3606 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3607 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
3608 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3609 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3611 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3612 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3614 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
3615 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
3618 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3619 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3620 information in --help and --version output.
3622 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3623 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3624 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3626 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3627 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3628 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3629 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3630 when the mode is enabled.
3632 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3633 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3634 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3635 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3636 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3637 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3638 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
3640 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3645 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3647 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3648 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3649 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3650 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3651 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3652 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3653 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3654 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3655 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3656 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3657 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3658 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3659 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3660 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3661 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3662 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3663 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3664 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3665 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3666 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3667 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3668 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3671 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3672 configuring glibc with:
3673 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3674 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3675 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3679 + define static_assert
3681 + do not declare gets
3683 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3685 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3686 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3687 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3690 + timespec_get added
3692 + uchar.h support added
3694 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3696 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3698 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
3700 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
3702 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3703 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3705 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3706 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3708 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3709 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3710 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3711 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3712 existing applications.
3714 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
3715 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3718 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3719 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3720 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3722 * New locales: mag_IN
3724 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3725 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3726 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3727 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3728 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
3730 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3732 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3735 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3737 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3738 without a previously built glibc.
3740 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3741 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3743 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3744 now supported for ARM processors.
3746 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3747 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3748 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3750 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
3752 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3753 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3754 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3755 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
3757 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3758 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3759 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3760 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3762 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3763 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3764 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3765 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3766 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3768 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3769 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3770 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3771 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
3775 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3777 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3778 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3779 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3780 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3781 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3782 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3783 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
3785 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3786 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3788 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3789 and support for initgroups lookups.
3790 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3792 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3793 Contributed by HJ Lu.
3795 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3796 Contributed by HJ Lu.
3798 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3799 on x86-32 and x86-64.
3800 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3802 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
3803 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3805 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3806 for x86-64 and x86-32.
3807 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3809 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3810 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3812 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3813 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3815 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3816 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3818 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3819 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3821 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3822 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3824 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3825 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3827 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
3829 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3830 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3832 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3833 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
3835 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
3839 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3841 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
3842 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3843 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
3844 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
3845 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3846 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3847 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
3848 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3849 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
3850 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
3852 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3853 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3854 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
3855 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
3857 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
3858 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3859 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
3860 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3862 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
3863 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
3865 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
3866 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
3868 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
3870 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3871 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3873 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3874 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3875 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3876 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
3880 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3882 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3883 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3884 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3885 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3888 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
3890 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
3892 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3893 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
3894 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3898 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3900 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3901 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3902 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3903 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
3904 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3905 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3906 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
3907 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
3909 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
3911 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3913 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3915 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3916 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3917 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3919 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3920 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3921 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3922 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3923 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3925 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
3929 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3931 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3932 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3933 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3934 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3935 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3936 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3938 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3940 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3942 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
3943 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3945 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3946 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3948 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3950 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
3951 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
3952 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
3953 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3955 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
3956 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3958 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3960 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3962 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3963 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3965 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3966 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3968 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3969 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3971 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3972 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3973 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3974 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3975 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3976 necessity is every process again.
3977 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3979 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3980 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3982 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3983 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3985 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3986 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3987 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3989 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
3993 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3995 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3996 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3997 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3998 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3999 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4001 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
4002 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4004 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
4005 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4007 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
4008 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
4010 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4013 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
4014 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4016 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4017 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4019 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4020 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4022 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4023 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4025 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4026 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4027 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4029 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
4031 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
4032 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4034 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4035 and extend existing format specifiers.
4036 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4038 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4039 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4041 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4042 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4043 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4044 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4045 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4046 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4050 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4052 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4053 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4054 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4055 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4056 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4058 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
4059 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4061 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4062 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
4064 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4065 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4067 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4068 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4069 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4071 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4072 Implemented by Eric Blake.
4074 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
4076 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
4077 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4079 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4080 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4081 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4082 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4084 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4085 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4087 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4089 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4091 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4095 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4097 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4098 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4099 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4100 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4101 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4102 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4103 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4105 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4107 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4109 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4110 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4112 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4114 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4115 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4117 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4118 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4120 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4121 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4122 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4124 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4125 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4127 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4128 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4130 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4131 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4133 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4134 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4138 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4140 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4141 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4142 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4143 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4144 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4146 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4147 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4149 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4151 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4152 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4153 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4155 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4156 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4158 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4159 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4161 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4163 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4164 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4166 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4167 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4169 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4170 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4172 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4174 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4175 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4177 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4178 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4181 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4182 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4186 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4188 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4189 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4190 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4191 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4192 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4193 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4194 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4197 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4199 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4201 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4205 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4207 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4208 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4209 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4210 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4211 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4212 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4213 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4214 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4215 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4217 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4218 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4219 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4221 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4222 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4224 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4226 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4228 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4229 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4230 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4231 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4232 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4234 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4235 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4236 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4237 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4239 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4242 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4244 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4247 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4249 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4250 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4254 * More overflow detection functions.
4256 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4257 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4259 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4260 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4261 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4262 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4263 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4264 by Masahide Washizawa.
4266 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4267 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4269 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4270 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4271 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4272 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4274 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4275 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4277 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4279 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4280 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4281 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4283 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4284 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4286 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4287 for compatibility with some other systems.
4289 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4293 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4295 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4296 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4297 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4298 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4299 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4300 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4302 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4304 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4306 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
4310 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4312 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4313 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4314 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4315 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4317 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4321 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4322 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4324 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4325 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4326 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4328 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4329 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4331 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
4333 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4335 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4336 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4339 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4340 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
4341 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4343 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
4344 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4346 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4347 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4348 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4349 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4351 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4352 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4353 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
4354 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4356 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4357 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4358 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4359 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4360 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
4364 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4365 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4367 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4368 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
4370 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
4371 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4373 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4374 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4376 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4379 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
4382 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4387 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4388 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4389 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4390 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4391 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4392 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4393 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4394 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4395 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4397 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4398 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4399 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4401 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
4403 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4404 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
4406 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4407 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4409 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
4411 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4412 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
4414 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4415 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4416 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4417 of weak definition in ld.so.
4419 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4420 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4422 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4423 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
4427 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4430 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4431 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
4433 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
4434 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
4436 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4437 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
4439 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
4440 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4441 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4443 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4444 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
4446 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
4447 implementation of regex.
4449 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4452 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4453 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
4455 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4456 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4457 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
4459 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
4460 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
4462 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4463 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4464 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
4466 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4467 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4469 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4470 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4473 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
4477 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4478 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4480 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4481 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
4485 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4486 128-bit long double format.
4488 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4489 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
4491 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
4493 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4495 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4498 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4499 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
4501 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
4505 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
4506 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
4508 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4509 support Unicode 3.1.
4511 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4512 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
4514 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
4516 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
4517 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4518 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4520 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4521 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4523 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4524 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
4526 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
4530 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
4531 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4532 in float, double, and long double format.
4534 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
4535 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4536 128-bit long double format.
4538 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4539 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4540 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4541 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4543 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4544 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4545 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4547 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4548 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
4550 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4551 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
4553 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4554 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4555 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
4557 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4558 family of functions for Linux/S390.
4560 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4561 of functions for Linux/x86.
4563 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
4567 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
4568 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4569 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4570 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4571 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4572 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4575 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4576 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4578 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4579 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4580 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4581 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4583 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4588 only lists the names of the supported locales
4592 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4593 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4597 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4598 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4599 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4600 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4601 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4603 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4605 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4607 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
4609 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4610 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4611 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
4613 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4614 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4616 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4617 changed from the default "C" locale.
4619 * The usual bug fixes.
4623 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4624 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4627 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4629 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
4631 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4632 obviously requires a database library being available.
4634 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4636 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
4638 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4639 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4641 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4643 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4644 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4647 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4648 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4649 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
4651 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
4652 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4654 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4655 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4656 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4658 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4659 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4660 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4663 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4664 structures for the wide character tables.
4666 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4668 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
4670 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4672 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4675 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4677 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4679 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4681 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4683 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4685 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4686 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4687 implemented for Linux.
4689 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4690 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4691 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4694 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4697 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
4711 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4713 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4715 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
4717 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4719 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
4721 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
4723 * Update timezone data files.
4725 * lots of charmaps corrections
4727 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
4732 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4733 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4734 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4735 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4736 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4737 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4739 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
4740 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4742 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
4745 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4746 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
4748 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
4750 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
4753 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
4755 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4756 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
4758 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4761 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
4762 functions from ISO C 9X.
4764 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4765 real valued functions.
4767 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
4769 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4771 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
4773 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
4775 * Optimized string functions have been added.
4777 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
4779 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4781 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4782 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4784 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4785 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4789 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
4791 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
4793 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
4795 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4797 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4799 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
4801 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4802 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
4805 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4806 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
4808 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
4810 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
4812 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4813 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4815 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
4817 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4820 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4821 latest draft standards.
4823 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4825 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4826 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4827 addseverity NEW: Unix98
4828 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
4829 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4830 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4831 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4832 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4833 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4834 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4835 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4836 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4837 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4838 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
4839 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4840 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4841 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
4842 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4843 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4844 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4846 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4847 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4848 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4849 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4850 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4857 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4858 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4859 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4860 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4861 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4863 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4864 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4865 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4866 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4867 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4868 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
4872 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4873 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4879 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4880 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4881 clearerr_locked REMOVED
4882 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4884 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4885 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4886 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4896 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4897 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4899 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4900 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4905 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4906 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4909 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4910 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4914 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4915 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4917 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4918 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
4919 endutxent NEW: Unix98
4921 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4922 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4926 fattach NEW: STREAMS
4927 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4931 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4932 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4933 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4934 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4935 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4937 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4938 ferror_locked REMOVED
4939 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4940 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4941 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4942 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4943 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4944 fflush_locked REMOVED
4948 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4949 fileno_locked REMOVED
4961 fputc_locked REMOVED
4962 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4963 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4968 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4972 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4974 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4975 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4979 getchar_locked REMOVED
4981 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4982 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4984 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
4985 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
4986 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4987 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4988 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4989 getutxent NEW: Unix98
4990 getutxid NEW: Unix98
4991 getutxline NEW: Unix98
4992 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4993 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4994 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4995 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4996 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4997 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4999 iconv_close NEW: iconv
5000 iconv_open NEW: iconv
5001 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5002 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5003 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5004 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5005 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5006 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5007 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5008 isastream NEW: STREAMS
5009 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
5010 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5011 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5012 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5013 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5014 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5015 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5016 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5017 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5018 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
5019 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5020 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5021 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5022 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5023 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5024 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5029 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5030 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5031 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5032 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5033 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5035 makecontext NEW: Unix98
5036 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5039 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5043 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5044 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5045 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5046 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5047 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
5048 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5049 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5050 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
5054 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
5056 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5057 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5060 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5061 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5062 profil_counter REMOVED
5063 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5064 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5065 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5066 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5068 putchar_locked REMOVED
5069 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5071 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5072 pututxline NEW: Unix98
5076 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5077 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5078 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5079 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5081 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5082 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5084 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5085 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5086 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5088 sendfile NEW: kernel
5089 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5090 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5091 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5093 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5094 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5095 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5096 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5097 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5098 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5099 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5100 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5101 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5105 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5106 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5107 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5108 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5109 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5110 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5111 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5112 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5113 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5114 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5115 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5116 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5117 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5121 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5122 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5124 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5125 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5126 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5127 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5128 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5129 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5131 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5132 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5133 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5134 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5135 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5136 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5137 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5139 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5140 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5141 write_profiling REMOVED
5142 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5143 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5144 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5145 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5146 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5147 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5148 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5149 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5150 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5151 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5152 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5153 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5154 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5155 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5156 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5157 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5168 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5170 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5172 * rewrite of cbrt function
5174 * update of timezone data
5188 * add atoll function
5190 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5192 * fix math functions
5196 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5198 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5200 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5201 the ELF dynamic loader.
5203 * support for parallel builds is improved
5207 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5208 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5211 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5212 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5213 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5214 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5215 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5216 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5217 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5218 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5219 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5220 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5221 files in the ELF format.
5223 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5224 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5226 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5227 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5228 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5229 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5230 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5231 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5232 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5233 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5234 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5235 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5236 about dynamically linked binaries.
5238 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5239 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5240 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5241 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5242 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5244 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5245 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5246 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5247 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5248 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5250 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5252 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5253 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5254 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5255 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5256 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5257 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5258 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5259 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5260 NSS services available.
5262 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5263 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5264 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5266 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5267 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5268 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5270 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5271 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5272 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5273 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5275 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5276 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5277 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5279 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5280 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5281 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5283 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5284 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5286 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5287 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5288 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5289 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5291 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5292 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5293 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5295 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5296 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5297 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5298 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5299 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5300 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
5301 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
5302 the header file <printf.h> for details.
5304 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5305 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5306 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5307 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5308 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5309 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5310 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
5312 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5313 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5314 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5315 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5316 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5317 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5319 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5320 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5322 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5323 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5324 NSS scheme used in glibc.
5326 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5328 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5329 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5330 their use is discouraged.
5332 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5333 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
5335 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5336 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
5338 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5339 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5341 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5344 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5345 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
5346 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5347 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5348 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
5350 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5351 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5352 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5353 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
5355 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5356 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5358 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5359 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5360 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5361 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5364 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5365 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5367 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5368 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5370 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
5371 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
5372 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5373 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
5375 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5377 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5378 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5379 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5381 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5382 for arithmetic and string handling.
5384 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
5385 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5386 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5387 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5389 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5390 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5391 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5392 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5393 programs already written to use it.)
5395 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5398 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5401 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5402 a given effective group ID.
5404 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5405 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5406 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5407 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5409 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
5410 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
5411 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5412 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5413 doing the same thing.
5415 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5416 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5418 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
5419 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
5421 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5423 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5424 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5425 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
5426 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
5427 `-ldb' to get these functions.
5429 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5430 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
5432 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
5433 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5434 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5437 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5439 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5440 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5443 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5444 and writing the utmp file.
5446 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5449 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5450 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5451 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5453 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5454 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5456 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5457 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5460 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5461 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5462 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5463 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5465 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5466 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5467 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5469 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5470 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5471 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5474 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5477 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5480 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5482 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5483 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5484 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
5488 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5490 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5491 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5493 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5494 want to put themselves in the background.
5496 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5497 run without an operating system.
5499 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5500 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5502 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5503 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5505 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5507 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5508 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5511 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5514 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5515 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5519 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5520 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5521 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5523 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5524 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5526 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5527 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5529 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5531 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5533 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5536 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5537 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5538 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5540 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5542 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5543 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5544 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5546 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5547 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5548 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5549 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5550 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5553 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5554 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5555 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5556 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5557 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5560 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5561 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5565 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5566 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5568 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5569 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5570 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5572 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5573 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5574 address of the last character written.
5576 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5577 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5579 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5580 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5582 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5583 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5584 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5585 you dereference this pointer.
5587 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5588 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5590 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5591 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5592 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5593 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5595 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5596 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5597 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5598 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5602 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5603 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5604 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5605 in Emacs or the `info' program.
5606 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
5608 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5610 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5612 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5613 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5615 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5616 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5618 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5619 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5621 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5622 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5623 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5624 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5625 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5627 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5628 to the error code in `errno'.
5630 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5631 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5632 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5635 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5636 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5637 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5639 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5640 uniquely-named temporary file.
5644 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5645 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5646 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5648 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5651 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5652 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5654 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5658 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5659 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5660 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5661 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5663 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5664 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5665 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5667 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5668 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5670 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5671 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5672 made itself into a shared library.
5674 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5675 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5677 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5678 with limited length.
5680 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5682 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5684 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5686 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5687 function for traversing a directory tree.
5689 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5690 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5691 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5692 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5694 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5695 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5697 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5699 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5700 things to your strings.
5702 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5704 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5705 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5706 supporting those systems.
5708 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5709 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5710 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5711 configuration files.
5713 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5714 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5716 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
5717 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5720 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5721 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5722 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5723 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5724 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5725 required storage is not available.
5727 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5728 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
5730 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5731 latest files released from Berkeley.
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