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10 * Unicode 9.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
11 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 9.0.0, using
12 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
14 Security related changes:
16 [Add security related changes here]
18 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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21 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
26 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
27 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
28 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
31 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
32 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
33 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
36 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
37 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
38 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
41 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
42 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
43 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
44 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
45 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
46 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
47 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
50 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
51 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
54 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
55 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
56 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
58 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
59 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
60 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
61 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
64 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
65 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
66 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
68 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
69 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
70 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
71 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
72 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
73 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
74 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
75 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
76 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
77 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
78 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
81 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
83 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
85 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
86 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
87 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
89 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
90 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
92 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
95 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
97 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
99 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
100 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
102 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
104 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
105 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
107 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
108 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
110 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
111 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
112 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
114 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
115 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
116 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
117 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
118 effects of the memory clear).
120 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
121 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
122 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
123 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
125 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
126 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
127 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
128 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
129 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
130 if they are compiled or used with those options.
132 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
135 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
136 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
137 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
138 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
139 as large as several megabytes.
141 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
142 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
145 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
146 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
147 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
148 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
149 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
150 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
151 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
153 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
154 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
155 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
156 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
158 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
159 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
160 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
163 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
164 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
165 They were already unimplemented.
167 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
168 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
169 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
170 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
172 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
173 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
174 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
175 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
176 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
178 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
179 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
180 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
181 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
182 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
184 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
185 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
186 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
187 did not reflect that.
189 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
190 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
191 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
192 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
193 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
194 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
195 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
198 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
199 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
200 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
201 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
203 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
204 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
205 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
206 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
208 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
209 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
212 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
213 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
216 Security related changes:
218 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
219 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
220 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
221 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
222 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
224 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
225 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
226 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
227 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
230 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
232 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
233 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
235 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
236 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
237 before it started waiting
238 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
239 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
240 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
241 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
243 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
244 library linked with pthread
245 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
247 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
248 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
249 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
250 after being __libc_memalign()'d
251 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
253 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
255 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
256 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
257 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
258 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
259 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
260 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
261 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
262 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
263 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
265 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
266 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
267 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
268 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
269 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
270 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
271 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
272 causes a segmentation fault
273 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
275 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
276 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
278 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
280 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
281 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
282 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
284 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
285 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
287 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
288 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
289 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
290 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
291 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
292 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
293 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
294 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
296 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
297 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
298 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
300 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
302 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
304 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
305 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
306 cause transition penalty
307 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
308 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
309 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
310 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
311 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
313 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
315 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
316 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
317 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
318 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
319 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
320 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
322 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
324 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
325 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
326 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
327 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
328 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
329 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
330 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
331 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
332 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
333 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
334 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
335 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
336 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
337 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
339 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
340 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
341 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
342 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
343 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
344 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
345 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
346 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
347 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
348 U+20AC), not same as GBK
349 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
350 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
351 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
352 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
353 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
354 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
355 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
356 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
358 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
359 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
360 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
361 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
362 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
364 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
365 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
366 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
367 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
368 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
369 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
370 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
372 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
373 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
374 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
375 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
376 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
380 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
381 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
382 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
383 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
384 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
387 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
388 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
389 been included in previous releases.
391 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
392 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
394 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
395 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
396 instead of “union wait”.
398 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
399 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
400 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
401 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
402 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
403 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
404 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
406 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
409 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
410 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
413 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
414 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
415 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
416 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
417 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
420 Security related changes:
422 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
423 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
424 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
426 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
427 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
428 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
429 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
431 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
432 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
433 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
435 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
436 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
437 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
439 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
440 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
441 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
442 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
444 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
446 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
447 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
449 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
450 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
451 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
452 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
453 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
454 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
455 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
456 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
458 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
459 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
460 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
461 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
462 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
463 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
465 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
467 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
468 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
469 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
470 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
471 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
472 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
473 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
474 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
475 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
476 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
477 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
479 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
480 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
481 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
482 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
483 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
484 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
486 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
487 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
489 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
490 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
492 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
494 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
495 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
497 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
498 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
499 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
500 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
502 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
504 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
505 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
506 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
507 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
509 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
510 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
511 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
512 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
513 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
514 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
515 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
516 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
517 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
519 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
520 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
521 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
522 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
524 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
526 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
528 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
529 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
530 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
531 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
532 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
533 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
535 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
536 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
538 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
539 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
541 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
543 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
545 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
546 pointers and lengths in error-case.
547 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
548 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
549 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
550 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
551 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
552 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
553 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
554 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
555 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
556 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
557 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
558 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
560 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
562 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
563 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
564 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
565 response to getaddrinfo
566 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
567 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
568 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
569 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
570 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
571 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
573 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
574 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
575 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
577 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
578 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
579 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
580 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
582 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
583 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
584 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
586 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
587 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
588 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
589 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
590 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
591 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
592 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
593 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
595 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
596 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
597 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
599 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
600 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
601 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
602 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
603 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
604 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
605 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
606 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
607 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
608 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
609 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
610 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
611 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
613 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
614 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
615 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
616 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
618 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
619 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
621 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
622 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
623 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
624 AS not supporting AVX512
625 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
627 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
628 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
630 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
631 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
632 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
633 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
634 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
636 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
637 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
639 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
640 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
641 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
642 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
643 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
644 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
645 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
646 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
647 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
649 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
650 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
651 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
652 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
653 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
654 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
655 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
656 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
657 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
658 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
659 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
660 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
661 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
663 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
664 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
665 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
666 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
667 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
669 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
670 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
672 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
674 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
675 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
676 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
677 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
678 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
679 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
680 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
681 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
682 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
686 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
687 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
688 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
689 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
690 89, 16061, and 18568.
692 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
693 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
694 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
695 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
696 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
697 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
698 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
700 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
701 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
702 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
704 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
705 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
706 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
707 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
708 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
709 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
710 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
712 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
713 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
714 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
715 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
716 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
717 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
718 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
721 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
722 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
723 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
724 independent of the GNU C Library.
726 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
727 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
729 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
730 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
731 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
732 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
733 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
736 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
737 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
739 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
740 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
741 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
742 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
743 defining their own copy.
745 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
746 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
747 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
749 Security related changes:
751 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
752 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
754 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
755 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
756 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
757 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
760 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
761 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
763 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
766 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
767 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
768 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
770 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
771 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
772 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
773 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
774 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
775 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
776 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
777 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
778 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
779 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
780 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
781 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
782 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
784 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
786 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
787 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
788 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
789 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
790 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
791 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
793 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
794 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
795 overflow/underflow errors
796 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
798 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
799 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
800 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
801 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
802 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
803 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
805 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
806 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
807 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
808 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
809 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
810 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
811 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
812 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
813 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
815 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
817 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
818 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
819 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
821 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
822 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
823 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
824 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
825 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
827 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
828 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
830 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
831 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
832 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
833 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
834 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
835 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
836 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
837 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
839 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
840 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
841 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
842 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
843 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
845 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
846 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
848 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
849 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
850 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
851 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
852 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
854 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
855 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
856 (related to lock elision)
857 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
858 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
859 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
860 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
862 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
863 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
864 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
865 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
866 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
867 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
868 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
869 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
870 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
871 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
872 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
873 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
874 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
875 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
876 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
877 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
878 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
879 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
880 contains a vector instruction exception.
881 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
882 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
884 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
885 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
886 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
887 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
888 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
890 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
892 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
893 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
895 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
896 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
897 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
898 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
899 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
901 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
902 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
903 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
904 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
905 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
906 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
908 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
909 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
910 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
911 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
912 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
913 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
914 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
915 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
916 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
918 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
919 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
920 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
921 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
922 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
923 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
924 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
926 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
927 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
928 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
929 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
931 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
932 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
933 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
934 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
935 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
936 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
938 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
939 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
940 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
941 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
942 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
943 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
945 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
946 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
947 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
948 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
949 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
950 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
951 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
952 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
954 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
955 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
956 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
957 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
958 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
959 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
960 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
961 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
962 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
964 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
966 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
967 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
968 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
970 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
971 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
972 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
973 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
974 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
975 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
976 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
977 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
978 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
979 pthread_setaffinity_np
980 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
981 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
982 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
983 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
984 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
986 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
987 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
988 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
989 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
990 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
991 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
992 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
994 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
995 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
996 for C99-based standards
997 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
998 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1000 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1001 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1002 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1004 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1005 "inexact" exceptions
1006 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1008 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1009 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1010 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1011 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1013 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1014 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1015 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1016 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1017 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1018 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1019 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1020 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1021 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1022 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1024 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1025 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1026 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1027 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1029 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1030 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1031 error on 32-bit architectures
1032 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1033 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1034 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1035 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1036 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1037 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1038 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1039 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1040 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1042 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1044 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1045 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1046 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1047 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1049 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
1053 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1055 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
1056 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1057 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1058 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1059 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1060 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1061 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1062 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1063 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1064 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1065 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1066 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1067 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1068 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1069 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1070 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1071 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1072 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
1073 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1074 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
1076 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1077 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1079 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1080 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1081 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1082 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1083 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1084 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
1086 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1087 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1088 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1089 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1090 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1092 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1093 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1094 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1096 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1097 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1098 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1101 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1102 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1103 condition in some applications.
1105 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
1106 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1108 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1109 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
1110 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1111 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
1112 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
1114 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1115 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1116 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1117 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
1119 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1120 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1121 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
1123 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1124 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
1126 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1127 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1128 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1130 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
1131 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1132 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1136 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1138 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
1139 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1140 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1141 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1142 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1143 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1144 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1145 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1146 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1147 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1150 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1151 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1152 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1153 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1156 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1157 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1158 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1159 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1160 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1161 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
1163 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1165 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1166 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
1167 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
1169 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1170 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1171 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1172 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1173 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1174 effects being visible outside transactions.
1176 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1177 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1179 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1181 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1182 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
1183 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
1184 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1185 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
1187 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1188 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1190 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1191 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1194 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1195 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1196 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1198 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1199 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1201 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
1203 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1204 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1205 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1206 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
1208 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1209 with newer versions of bison.
1211 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1212 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1213 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1214 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1215 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1216 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1217 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1218 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1219 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1220 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1221 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1222 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1223 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1225 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1226 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1227 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1228 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1229 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
1233 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1235 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1236 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1237 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1238 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1239 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1240 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1241 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1242 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1243 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1244 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1245 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1246 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1247 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1248 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1249 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
1251 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1252 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1253 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1254 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1255 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
1256 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
1257 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1258 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1259 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1260 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1262 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1263 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1264 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1265 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1266 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
1268 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1270 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1271 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1273 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1274 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1275 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1276 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1277 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1278 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1280 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1283 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1284 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1285 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1286 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1287 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1288 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1289 test macros defined.
1291 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1293 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1294 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1295 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1296 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1297 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1298 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1301 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1302 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1303 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1304 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1307 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1308 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1309 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
1311 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1312 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1313 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1314 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
1316 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1317 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1318 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1319 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1320 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1321 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1322 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1325 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1326 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1327 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1328 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1329 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1330 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1331 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1332 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1333 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
1335 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1336 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1337 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1338 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1339 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
1340 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
1342 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1343 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1344 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1345 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
1349 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1351 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1352 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1353 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1354 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1355 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1356 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1357 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1358 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1359 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1360 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
1361 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1362 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1363 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1364 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1365 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
1366 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1367 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1368 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
1370 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1371 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1373 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1374 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1375 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
1376 extension which uses __block.
1378 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1379 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1380 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1381 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1382 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1384 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1385 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1386 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1387 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1390 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1391 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1392 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1393 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1394 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
1396 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1397 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1398 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1400 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1401 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1402 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1405 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1406 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1408 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
1409 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
1411 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1413 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1416 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
1418 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1420 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1421 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1422 for which the C library was built.
1424 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1425 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1426 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1427 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1428 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1429 in the following circumstances:
1431 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1433 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1434 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1436 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1437 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1439 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1440 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
1442 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1444 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1445 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1447 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
1449 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
1451 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
1453 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1454 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1455 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1456 disable some of those declarations.
1458 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
1459 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1460 that did nothing) has also been removed.
1462 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1463 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
1465 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1466 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1467 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1468 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1469 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1470 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1471 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1472 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1473 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1474 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1475 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1476 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1477 require recompilation.
1481 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1483 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
1484 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1485 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
1486 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1487 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1488 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1489 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1490 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1491 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1492 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1493 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1494 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1495 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1498 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1499 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1500 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1501 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1502 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1503 understands and accepts the risks.
1505 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1508 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1509 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
1511 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1512 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1513 destructor calls to glibc.
1515 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1518 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
1519 non-x86 architectures.
1521 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
1523 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
1525 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
1528 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1530 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
1533 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
1534 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1536 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
1538 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
1539 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
1541 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
1542 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
1544 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
1545 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
1546 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
1548 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
1549 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
1550 attributes of a process.
1552 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
1553 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
1554 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
1555 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
1558 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
1559 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
1561 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
1565 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1567 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
1568 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
1569 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
1570 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
1571 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
1572 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
1573 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
1574 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
1575 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
1576 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
1577 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
1578 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
1579 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
1580 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
1581 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
1583 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
1585 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
1586 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
1588 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
1589 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
1591 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
1593 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
1594 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
1596 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
1598 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
1599 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
1600 the internal function __secure_getenv.
1602 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
1603 Implemented by Gary Benson.
1605 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
1606 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1608 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1609 can be used with is 2.6.16.
1611 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
1612 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
1614 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
1615 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
1616 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
1617 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
1619 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
1620 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
1622 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
1623 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
1626 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
1627 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
1628 information in --help and --version output.
1630 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
1631 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
1632 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
1634 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
1635 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
1636 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
1637 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
1638 when the mode is enabled.
1640 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
1641 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
1642 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
1643 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
1644 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
1645 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
1646 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
1648 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
1653 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1655 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
1656 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
1657 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
1658 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
1659 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
1660 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
1661 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
1662 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
1663 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
1664 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
1665 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
1666 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
1667 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
1668 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
1669 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
1670 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
1671 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
1672 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
1673 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
1674 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
1675 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
1676 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
1679 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
1680 configuring glibc with:
1681 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
1682 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
1683 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1687 + define static_assert
1689 + do not declare gets
1691 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
1693 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
1694 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
1695 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
1698 + timespec_get added
1700 + uchar.h support added
1702 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
1704 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1706 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
1708 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
1710 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
1711 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1713 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
1714 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1716 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
1717 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
1718 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
1719 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
1720 existing applications.
1722 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
1723 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
1726 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
1727 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
1728 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
1730 * New locales: mag_IN
1732 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
1733 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
1734 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
1735 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
1736 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
1738 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1740 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
1743 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1745 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
1746 without a previously built glibc.
1748 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
1749 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
1751 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
1752 now supported for ARM processors.
1754 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
1755 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
1756 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
1758 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
1760 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
1761 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
1762 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
1763 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
1765 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
1766 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
1767 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
1768 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
1770 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
1771 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
1772 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
1773 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
1774 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
1776 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
1777 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
1778 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
1779 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
1783 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1785 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
1786 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
1787 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
1788 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
1789 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
1790 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
1791 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
1793 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
1794 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1796 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
1797 and support for initgroups lookups.
1798 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1800 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
1801 Contributed by HJ Lu.
1803 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
1804 Contributed by HJ Lu.
1806 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
1807 on x86-32 and x86-64.
1808 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1810 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
1811 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1813 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
1814 for x86-64 and x86-32.
1815 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1817 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
1818 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1820 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
1821 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1823 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
1824 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1826 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
1827 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1829 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
1830 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1832 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
1833 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1835 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
1837 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
1838 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1840 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
1841 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
1843 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
1847 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1849 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
1850 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
1851 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
1852 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
1853 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
1854 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
1855 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
1856 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
1857 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
1858 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
1860 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
1861 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
1862 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
1863 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
1865 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
1866 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
1867 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
1868 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1870 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
1871 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
1873 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
1874 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
1876 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
1878 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
1879 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1881 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
1882 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
1883 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
1884 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
1888 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1890 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
1891 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
1892 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
1893 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
1896 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
1898 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
1900 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
1901 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
1902 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1906 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1908 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
1909 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
1910 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
1911 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
1912 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
1913 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
1914 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
1915 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
1917 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
1919 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
1921 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
1923 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
1924 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
1925 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1927 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
1928 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
1929 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
1930 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
1931 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1933 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
1937 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1939 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
1940 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
1941 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
1942 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
1943 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
1944 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
1946 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
1948 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1950 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
1951 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1953 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
1954 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1956 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
1958 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
1959 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
1960 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
1961 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
1963 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
1964 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1966 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
1968 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
1970 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
1971 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
1973 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
1974 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1976 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
1977 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1979 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
1980 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
1981 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
1982 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
1983 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
1984 necessity is every process again.
1985 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1987 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
1988 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
1990 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
1991 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
1993 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
1994 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
1995 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1997 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
2001 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2003 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2004 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2005 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2006 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2007 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2009 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
2010 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2012 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
2013 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2015 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
2016 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
2018 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
2021 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
2022 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2024 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2025 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2027 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2028 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2030 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2031 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2033 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2034 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2035 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2037 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
2039 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
2040 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2042 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2043 and extend existing format specifiers.
2044 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2046 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2047 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2049 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
2050 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2051 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2052 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2053 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2054 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2058 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2060 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2061 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2062 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2063 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2064 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2066 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
2067 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2069 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2070 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
2072 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2073 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2075 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2076 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2077 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2079 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2080 Implemented by Eric Blake.
2082 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
2084 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
2085 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2087 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
2088 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2089 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2090 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2092 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2093 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2095 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
2097 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2099 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
2103 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2105 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2106 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2107 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2108 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2109 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2110 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2111 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2113 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
2115 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
2117 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2118 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2120 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2122 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2123 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2125 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2126 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2128 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2129 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2130 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2132 * Faster memset for x86-64.
2133 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2135 * Faster memcpy on x86.
2136 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2138 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2141 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
2142 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2146 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2148 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2149 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2150 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2151 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2152 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2154 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2155 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2157 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2159 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2160 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2161 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2163 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2164 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2166 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
2167 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2169 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2171 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
2172 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2174 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2175 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2177 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2178 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2180 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2182 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2183 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2185 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2186 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2189 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2190 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2194 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2196 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2197 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2198 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2199 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2200 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2201 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2202 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2205 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
2207 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
2209 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2213 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2215 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2216 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2217 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2218 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2219 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2220 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2221 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2222 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2223 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2225 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
2226 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
2227 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2229 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2230 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2232 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
2234 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
2236 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2237 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2238 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
2239 site might have problems with the default behavior.
2240 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2242 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
2243 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
2244 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2245 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2247 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
2250 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2252 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2255 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2257 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
2258 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
2262 * More overflow detection functions.
2264 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2265 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
2267 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2268 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2269 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2270 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2271 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2272 by Masahide Washizawa.
2274 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
2275 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2277 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2278 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2279 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2280 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
2282 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2283 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2285 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2287 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2288 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2289 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2291 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2292 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2294 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2295 for compatibility with some other systems.
2297 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
2301 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2303 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2304 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2305 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2306 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2307 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2308 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2310 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2312 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2314 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
2318 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2320 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2321 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2322 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2323 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2325 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2329 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2330 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2332 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2333 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2334 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2336 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2337 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2339 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
2341 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2343 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2344 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2347 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2348 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
2349 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2351 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
2352 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2354 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2355 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2356 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2357 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2359 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2360 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2361 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
2362 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2364 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2365 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2366 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2367 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2368 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
2372 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2373 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2375 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2376 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
2378 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
2379 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
2381 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2382 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2384 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2387 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
2390 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2395 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2396 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2397 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2398 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2399 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2400 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2401 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2402 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2403 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2405 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2406 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2407 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2409 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
2411 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2412 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
2414 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2415 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2417 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
2419 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2420 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
2422 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2423 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2424 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2425 of weak definition in ld.so.
2427 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2428 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2430 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2431 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
2435 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2438 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2439 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
2441 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
2442 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
2444 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2445 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
2447 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
2448 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2449 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2451 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2452 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
2454 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
2455 implementation of regex.
2457 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2460 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2461 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
2463 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2464 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2465 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
2467 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
2468 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
2470 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2471 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2472 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
2474 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2475 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2477 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2478 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2481 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
2485 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2486 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2488 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2489 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
2493 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2494 128-bit long double format.
2496 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2497 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
2499 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
2501 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
2503 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
2506 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2507 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
2509 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
2513 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
2514 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
2516 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2517 support Unicode 3.1.
2519 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
2520 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
2522 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
2524 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
2525 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
2526 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2528 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
2529 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
2531 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
2532 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
2534 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
2538 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
2539 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
2540 in float, double, and long double format.
2542 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
2543 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
2544 128-bit long double format.
2546 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
2547 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
2548 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
2549 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
2551 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
2552 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
2553 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2555 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
2556 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
2558 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
2559 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
2561 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
2562 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
2563 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
2565 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
2566 family of functions for Linux/S390.
2568 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
2569 of functions for Linux/x86.
2571 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
2575 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
2576 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
2577 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
2578 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
2579 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
2580 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
2583 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
2584 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
2586 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
2587 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
2588 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
2589 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2591 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
2596 only lists the names of the supported locales
2600 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
2601 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2605 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
2606 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
2607 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
2608 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
2609 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
2611 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
2613 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
2615 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
2617 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
2618 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
2619 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
2621 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
2622 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
2624 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
2625 changed from the default "C" locale.
2627 * The usual bug fixes.
2631 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
2632 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
2635 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
2637 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2639 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
2640 obviously requires a database library being available.
2642 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2644 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
2646 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
2647 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
2649 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
2651 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
2652 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
2655 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
2656 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
2657 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
2659 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
2660 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
2662 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
2663 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
2664 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
2666 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
2667 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
2668 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
2669 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2671 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
2672 structures for the wide character tables.
2674 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2676 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
2678 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
2680 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
2683 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
2685 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
2687 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2689 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
2691 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
2693 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
2694 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
2695 implemented for Linux.
2697 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
2698 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
2699 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
2702 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
2705 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
2719 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
2721 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
2723 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
2725 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
2727 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
2729 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
2731 * Update timezone data files.
2733 * lots of charmaps corrections
2735 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
2740 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
2741 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
2742 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
2743 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
2744 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
2745 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
2747 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
2748 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2750 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
2753 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
2754 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
2756 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
2758 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
2761 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
2763 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
2764 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
2766 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
2769 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
2770 functions from ISO C 9X.
2772 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
2773 real valued functions.
2775 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
2777 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
2779 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
2781 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
2783 * Optimized string functions have been added.
2785 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
2787 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2789 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
2790 daemon for NSS (nscd).
2792 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
2793 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
2797 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
2799 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
2801 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
2803 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
2805 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
2807 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
2809 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
2810 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
2813 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
2814 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
2816 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
2818 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
2820 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
2821 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
2823 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
2825 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
2828 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
2829 latest draft standards.
2831 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
2833 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
2834 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2835 addseverity NEW: Unix98
2836 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
2837 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
2838 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
2839 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
2840 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
2841 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
2842 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
2843 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
2844 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
2845 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
2846 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
2847 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
2848 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
2849 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
2850 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
2851 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
2852 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
2854 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
2855 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
2856 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
2857 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
2858 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
2865 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
2866 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
2867 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2868 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2869 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
2871 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
2872 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
2873 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2874 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2875 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
2876 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
2880 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
2881 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
2887 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
2888 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
2889 clearerr_locked REMOVED
2890 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
2892 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
2893 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
2894 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
2904 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
2905 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
2907 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
2908 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
2913 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2914 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2917 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
2918 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
2922 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2923 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2925 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
2926 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
2927 endutxent NEW: Unix98
2929 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
2930 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
2934 fattach NEW: STREAMS
2935 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
2939 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2940 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2941 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
2942 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
2943 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2945 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2946 ferror_locked REMOVED
2947 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2948 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
2949 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
2950 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2951 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2952 fflush_locked REMOVED
2956 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2957 fileno_locked REMOVED
2969 fputc_locked REMOVED
2970 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2971 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2976 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
2980 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
2982 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2983 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
2987 getchar_locked REMOVED
2989 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
2990 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
2992 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
2993 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
2994 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
2995 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
2996 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
2997 getutxent NEW: Unix98
2998 getutxid NEW: Unix98
2999 getutxline NEW: Unix98
3000 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3001 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3002 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3003 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3004 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3005 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
3007 iconv_close NEW: iconv
3008 iconv_open NEW: iconv
3009 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3010 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3011 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3012 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3013 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3014 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3015 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3016 isastream NEW: STREAMS
3017 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
3018 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3019 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3020 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3021 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3022 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3023 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3024 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3025 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3026 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
3027 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3028 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3029 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3030 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3031 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3032 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3037 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3038 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3039 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3040 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3041 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3043 makecontext NEW: Unix98
3044 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3047 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3051 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3052 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3053 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3054 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
3055 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
3056 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
3057 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3058 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
3062 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
3064 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3065 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3068 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3069 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3070 profil_counter REMOVED
3071 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3072 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3073 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3074 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3076 putchar_locked REMOVED
3077 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3079 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
3080 pututxline NEW: Unix98
3084 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3085 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3086 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3087 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3089 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3090 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3092 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3093 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3094 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3096 sendfile NEW: kernel
3097 setcontext NEW: Unix98
3098 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
3099 setutxent NEW: Unix98
3101 sigignore NEW: Unix98
3102 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3103 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3104 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3105 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3106 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3107 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3108 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3109 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3113 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
3114 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3115 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3116 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
3117 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
3118 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3119 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3120 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3121 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3122 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3123 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3124 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3125 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3129 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3130 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3132 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3133 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
3134 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
3135 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
3136 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3137 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
3139 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3140 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3141 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3142 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3143 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3144 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3145 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3147 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3148 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3149 write_profiling REMOVED
3150 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3151 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3152 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3153 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3154 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3155 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3156 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3157 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3158 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3159 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3160 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3161 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3162 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
3163 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
3164 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3165 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3176 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3178 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3180 * rewrite of cbrt function
3182 * update of timezone data
3196 * add atoll function
3198 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
3200 * fix math functions
3204 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3206 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
3208 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3209 the ELF dynamic loader.
3211 * support for parallel builds is improved
3215 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3216 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3219 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3220 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3221 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3222 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
3223 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3224 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
3225 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3226 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3227 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
3228 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3229 files in the ELF format.
3231 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3232 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3234 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
3235 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3236 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3237 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3238 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3239 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3240 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3241 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
3242 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3243 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3244 about dynamically linked binaries.
3246 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3247 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
3248 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3249 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3250 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
3252 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
3253 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3254 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3255 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3256 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3258 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
3260 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3261 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
3262 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3263 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3264 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3265 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3266 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3267 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3268 NSS services available.
3270 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3271 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3272 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3274 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3275 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3276 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3278 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3279 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3280 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3281 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3283 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3284 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3285 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3287 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3288 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3289 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3291 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3292 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3294 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
3295 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
3296 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
3297 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3299 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3300 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3301 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
3303 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
3304 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3305 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3306 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
3307 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3308 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
3309 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
3310 the header file <printf.h> for details.
3312 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3313 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3314 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3315 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3316 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3317 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3318 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
3320 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3321 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3322 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3323 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3324 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3325 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3327 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3328 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3330 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3331 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3332 NSS scheme used in glibc.
3334 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3336 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3337 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3338 their use is discouraged.
3340 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3341 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
3343 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3344 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
3346 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3347 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3349 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3352 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3353 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
3354 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3355 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3356 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
3358 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3359 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3360 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3361 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
3363 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3364 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3366 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3367 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3368 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3369 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3372 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3373 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3375 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3376 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3378 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
3379 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
3380 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3381 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
3383 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3385 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3386 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3387 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3389 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3390 for arithmetic and string handling.
3392 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
3393 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3394 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3395 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3397 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3398 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3399 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3400 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3401 programs already written to use it.)
3403 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3406 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3409 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3410 a given effective group ID.
3412 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3413 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3414 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3415 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3417 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
3418 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
3419 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3420 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3421 doing the same thing.
3423 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3424 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3426 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
3427 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
3429 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3431 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3432 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3433 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
3434 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
3435 `-ldb' to get these functions.
3437 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3438 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
3440 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
3441 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3442 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3445 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3447 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3448 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3451 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3452 and writing the utmp file.
3454 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3457 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3458 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3459 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3461 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3462 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3464 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3465 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3468 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3469 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3470 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3471 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3473 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3474 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3475 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3477 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3478 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3479 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3482 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3485 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3488 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3490 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3491 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3492 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
3496 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3498 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3499 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3501 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3502 want to put themselves in the background.
3504 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3505 run without an operating system.
3507 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3508 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3510 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3511 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3513 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3515 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3516 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3519 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
3522 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
3523 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
3527 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
3528 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
3529 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
3531 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
3532 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
3534 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
3535 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
3537 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
3539 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
3541 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
3544 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
3545 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
3546 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
3548 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
3550 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
3551 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
3552 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
3554 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
3555 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
3556 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
3557 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
3558 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
3561 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
3562 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
3563 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
3564 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
3565 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
3568 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
3569 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
3573 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
3574 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
3576 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
3577 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
3578 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
3580 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
3581 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
3582 address of the last character written.
3584 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
3585 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
3587 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
3588 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
3590 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
3591 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
3592 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
3593 you dereference this pointer.
3595 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
3596 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
3598 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
3599 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
3600 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
3601 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
3603 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
3604 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
3605 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
3606 EAGAIN in every system call function.
3610 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
3611 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
3612 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
3613 in Emacs or the `info' program.
3614 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
3616 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
3618 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
3620 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
3621 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
3623 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
3624 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
3626 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
3627 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
3629 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
3630 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
3631 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
3632 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
3633 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
3635 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
3636 to the error code in `errno'.
3638 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
3639 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
3640 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
3643 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
3644 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
3645 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
3647 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
3648 uniquely-named temporary file.
3652 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
3653 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
3654 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
3656 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
3659 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
3660 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
3662 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
3666 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
3667 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
3668 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
3669 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
3671 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
3672 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
3673 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
3675 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
3676 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
3678 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
3679 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
3680 made itself into a shared library.
3682 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
3683 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
3685 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
3686 with limited length.
3688 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
3690 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
3692 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
3694 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
3695 function for traversing a directory tree.
3697 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
3698 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
3699 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
3700 formatted output directly to an obstack.
3702 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
3703 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
3705 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
3707 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
3708 things to your strings.
3710 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
3712 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
3713 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
3714 supporting those systems.
3716 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
3717 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
3718 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
3719 configuration files.
3721 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
3722 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
3724 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
3725 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
3728 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
3729 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
3730 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
3731 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
3732 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
3733 required storage is not available.
3735 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
3736 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
3738 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
3739 latest files released from Berkeley.
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