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12 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
13 to change argv[0] string.
15 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
16 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
17 larger than fit in an integer.
19 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
21 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
22 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
28 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
31 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
32 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
33 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
34 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
37 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
39 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
42 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
43 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
44 Instead, the default implementation is used.
46 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
47 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
48 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
51 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
52 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
53 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
55 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
56 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
57 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
58 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
59 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
60 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
62 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
64 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
65 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
66 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
67 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
68 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
69 perform any adjustments.
71 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
72 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
73 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
74 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
76 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
78 Security related changes:
80 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
81 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
82 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
84 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
85 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
87 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
89 [The release manager will add the list generated by
90 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
97 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
98 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
99 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
101 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
103 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
104 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
105 Three ABIs are supported:
111 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
112 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
114 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
115 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
117 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
118 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
119 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
122 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
123 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
124 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
126 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
127 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
128 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
130 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
131 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
132 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
133 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
136 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
137 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
138 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
139 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
140 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
141 NULL for an invalid signal number.
143 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
144 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
146 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
147 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
148 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
149 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
150 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
151 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
153 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
154 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
156 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
157 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
158 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
159 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
160 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
161 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
162 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
163 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
164 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
165 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
166 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
169 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
171 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
172 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
173 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
174 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
175 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
176 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
177 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
179 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
180 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
181 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
182 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
183 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
184 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
185 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
186 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
187 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
189 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
190 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
191 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
192 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
193 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
195 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
196 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
197 was not declared in any header file.
199 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
200 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
201 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
202 sigaction functions instead.
204 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
205 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
207 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
208 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
209 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
210 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
213 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
214 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
215 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
216 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
217 strerror or strerror_r instead.
219 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
220 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
221 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
222 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
224 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
225 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
226 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
227 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
228 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
229 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
230 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
232 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
233 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
234 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
235 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
236 flavor of secure RPC.)
238 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
239 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
240 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
241 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
242 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
243 object, to enable the hooks.
245 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
246 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
247 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
250 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
252 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
253 long double redirects.
255 Security related changes:
257 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
258 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
259 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
261 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
262 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
263 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
265 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
266 expanding ~user has been fixed.
268 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
269 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
270 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
273 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
275 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
276 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
277 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
278 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
279 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
280 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
281 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
282 filtee has constructor
283 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
284 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
285 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
286 character entities for infinity & pi
287 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
288 segfaults in applications
289 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
290 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
291 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
292 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
293 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
294 function with -mlong-double-64
295 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
297 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
299 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
300 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
301 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
302 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
303 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
304 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
306 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
307 dynamically loaded dsos
308 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
309 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
311 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
312 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
313 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
314 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
315 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
316 stale configuration forever
317 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
319 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
321 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
322 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
324 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
325 on 32 bit and old kernel
326 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
327 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
329 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
330 amount of sigset_t bytes
331 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
333 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
334 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
335 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
336 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
337 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
338 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
339 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
340 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
341 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
342 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
344 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
345 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
346 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
347 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
348 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
349 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
350 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
352 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
353 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
355 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
356 exiting detached thread
357 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
359 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
361 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
362 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
363 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
364 dependencies in audit mode
365 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
366 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
367 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
368 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
369 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
371 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
372 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
374 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
375 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
377 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
378 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
379 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
380 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
381 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
382 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
390 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
391 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
392 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
393 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
394 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
395 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
397 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
398 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
399 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
400 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
402 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
403 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
404 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
406 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
408 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
409 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
410 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
411 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
412 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
413 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
414 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
415 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
417 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
419 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
420 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
421 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
422 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
423 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
424 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
426 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
427 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
428 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
430 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
431 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
432 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
433 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
435 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
436 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
437 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
438 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
439 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
440 made this no longer practical.
442 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
443 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
444 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
445 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
448 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
449 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
450 with the current time, use the localtime function.
452 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
453 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
454 using clock_gettime instead.
456 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
457 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
458 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
459 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
460 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
462 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
463 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
464 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
465 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
467 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
468 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
469 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
470 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
471 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
472 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
474 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
475 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
476 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
477 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
480 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
481 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
482 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
484 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
487 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
488 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
489 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
490 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
491 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
493 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
494 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
495 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
496 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
497 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
498 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
499 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
500 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
502 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
503 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
505 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
506 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
507 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
508 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
509 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
510 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
512 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
514 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
515 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
516 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
518 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
519 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
520 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
522 Security related changes:
524 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
525 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
527 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
528 environment variable during program execution after a security
529 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
530 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
531 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
533 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
535 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
536 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
537 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
538 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
539 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
540 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
541 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
542 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
544 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
545 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
546 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
547 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
548 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
549 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
550 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
551 constructors/destructors is not fatal
552 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
553 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
555 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
557 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
558 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
559 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
560 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
561 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
562 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
563 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
565 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
567 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
568 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
569 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
570 (stringop-overflow error)
571 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
572 functions other can lead to crashes
573 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
574 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
576 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
577 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
578 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
579 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
580 still can fail with an error
581 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
582 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
583 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
584 initialized correctly
585 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
587 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
589 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
590 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
591 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
593 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
595 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
597 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
599 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
600 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
601 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
603 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
604 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
606 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
607 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
608 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
609 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
610 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
611 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
618 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
619 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
620 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
622 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
623 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
625 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
626 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
627 to the callback function.
629 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
631 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
632 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
635 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
637 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
638 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
639 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
640 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
641 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
643 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
644 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
645 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
646 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
647 link time reference, is gone.
649 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
650 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
651 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
652 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
653 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
654 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
655 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
656 the clock choice at initialization time).
658 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
659 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
660 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
662 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
664 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
665 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
666 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
667 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
668 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
669 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
670 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
671 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
672 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
674 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
675 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
676 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
677 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
680 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
681 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
683 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
684 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
686 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
687 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
689 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
692 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
693 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
694 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
696 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
697 header have been removed.
699 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
700 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
701 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
702 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
704 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
706 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
708 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
709 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
711 Security related changes:
713 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
714 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
715 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
716 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
717 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
718 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
719 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
721 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
722 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
723 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
725 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
727 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
728 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
729 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
730 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
731 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
732 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
733 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
734 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
735 invalid input drops valid char
736 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
737 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
738 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
739 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
740 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
742 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
743 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
744 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
745 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
747 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
748 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
749 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
750 for long double = double
751 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
753 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
754 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
755 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
757 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
758 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
760 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
761 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
762 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
763 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
764 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
765 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
766 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
767 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
768 not the default "nor"
769 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
770 false positives, change to modern flexible array
771 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
772 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
774 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
775 unnecessary librt dependencies
776 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
777 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
778 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
779 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
781 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
782 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
784 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
785 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
787 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
788 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
789 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
790 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
792 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
793 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
794 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
795 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
797 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
799 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
800 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
802 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
803 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
804 kernels and break testing
805 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
806 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
807 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
808 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
809 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
810 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
811 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
813 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
814 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
816 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
818 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
819 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
820 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
821 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
822 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
823 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
824 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
825 always implemented in the same library
826 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
827 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
828 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
836 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
837 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
839 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
840 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
841 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
842 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
843 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
846 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
848 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
849 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
851 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
852 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
853 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
854 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
855 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
856 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
857 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
858 process actually does not use HTM).
860 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
861 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
862 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
863 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
864 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
867 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
868 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
869 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
870 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
871 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
873 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
874 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
876 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
877 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
879 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
880 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
881 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
882 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
883 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
884 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
885 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
887 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
888 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
889 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
891 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
893 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
894 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
896 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
897 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
898 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
899 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
901 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
902 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
903 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
904 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
907 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
908 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
909 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
910 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
911 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
912 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
914 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
915 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
916 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
917 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
918 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
920 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
921 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
922 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
924 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
926 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
928 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
929 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
931 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
932 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
934 Security related changes:
936 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
937 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
938 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
940 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
941 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
942 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
943 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
946 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
947 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
948 or command injection issues in applications.
950 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
952 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
953 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
954 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
956 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
957 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
958 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
960 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
961 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
962 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
963 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
964 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
965 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
966 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
967 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
968 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
969 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
970 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
971 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
972 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
973 pointer argument is non-NULL
974 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
975 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
976 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
977 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
978 multithreads call popen
979 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
980 and pthread_create fails.
981 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
982 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
984 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
985 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
986 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
988 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
990 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
992 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
993 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
995 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
996 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
997 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
998 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
999 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1000 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1001 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1003 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1004 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1005 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1007 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1008 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1009 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1010 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1012 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1014 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1015 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1016 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1017 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1019 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1021 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1022 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1023 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1025 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1026 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1027 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1028 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1029 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1030 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1032 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1033 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1034 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1035 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1036 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1037 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1038 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1039 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1040 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1041 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1042 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1043 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1044 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1045 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1047 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1048 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1049 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1050 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1051 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1053 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1054 nearest rounding mode
1055 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1056 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1057 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1058 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1059 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1060 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1061 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1062 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1063 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1065 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1066 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1068 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1069 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1070 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1071 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1073 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1075 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1077 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1079 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1080 answers will be rejected)
1081 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1088 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1089 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1090 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1091 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1092 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1093 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1094 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1095 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1096 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1097 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1098 archive or binary locales.
1100 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1101 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1102 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1103 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1104 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1105 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1106 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1107 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
1108 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1109 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1110 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1113 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1114 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1115 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1116 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1117 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1118 field) to indicate such support is required.
1120 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1121 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1122 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1124 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1125 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1127 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1128 fMxaddfNx functions.
1130 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1131 fMxsubfNx functions.
1133 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1134 fMxmulfNx functions.
1136 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1137 fMxdivfNx functions.
1139 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
1140 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
1141 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
1142 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1145 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
1146 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
1148 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1151 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1152 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1153 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1154 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1155 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1156 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1157 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1158 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1160 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1161 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1162 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1163 the fstatat64 function.
1165 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1166 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1167 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1168 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1169 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1170 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1171 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1172 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1173 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1175 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1176 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1177 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1178 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1179 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1180 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1181 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1182 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1183 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1184 results in a load failure now.
1186 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1187 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1190 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1191 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1193 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1194 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1196 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1198 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1199 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1201 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1203 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1205 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1207 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1208 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1209 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1211 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1212 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1213 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1214 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1215 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1216 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1218 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1219 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1220 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1221 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1222 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1223 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1226 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1227 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1228 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1229 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1230 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1231 further explanation.
1233 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1234 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1235 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
1237 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1239 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1240 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1241 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1243 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1244 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1245 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1246 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1248 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1249 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1250 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1251 for this function instead.
1253 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1254 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1255 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1257 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1258 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1259 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1260 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1262 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1263 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1264 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1265 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1266 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1268 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1269 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1270 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1271 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1272 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1273 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1276 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1277 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1278 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1281 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1282 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1283 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1285 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1286 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1287 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1288 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1289 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1290 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1292 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1293 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1294 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1295 behavior in a future release.
1297 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1299 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
1301 Security related changes:
1303 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1304 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1305 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1306 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
1308 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1309 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1311 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1312 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1315 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1316 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1317 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1319 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1321 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1322 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1323 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1324 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1325 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1326 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1327 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1328 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1329 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1331 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1332 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1333 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1334 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1335 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1337 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1339 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1340 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1341 scope with -O1 and higher
1342 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1343 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1344 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1345 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1346 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1347 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1348 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1349 horrible machine code)
1350 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1352 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1353 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1355 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1356 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1358 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1359 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1360 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1361 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1362 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1364 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1365 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1366 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1367 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1368 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1370 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1371 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1372 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1374 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1375 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1376 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1377 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1378 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1379 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1380 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1381 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1382 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1383 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1384 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1385 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1386 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1388 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1390 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1391 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1392 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1393 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1394 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1395 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1396 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1397 for Spanish with CLDR
1398 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1399 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1400 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1401 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1402 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1403 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1405 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1407 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1408 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1409 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1410 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1412 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1413 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1414 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1415 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1416 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1417 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1418 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1419 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1420 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1421 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1422 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1423 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1424 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1425 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1426 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1427 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1428 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1430 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1431 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1433 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1434 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1435 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1436 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1437 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1438 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1440 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1442 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1443 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1444 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1445 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1446 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1447 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1448 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1449 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1450 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1451 and libc build with -Os)
1452 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1453 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1454 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1455 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1456 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1457 that changes /etc/passwd
1458 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1460 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1461 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1462 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1464 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1465 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1466 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1467 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1468 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1470 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1471 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1473 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1474 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1475 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1476 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1478 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1479 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1480 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1481 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1483 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1485 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1487 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1489 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1491 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1492 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1493 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1494 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1495 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1496 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1497 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1498 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1500 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
1507 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1508 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
1509 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
1510 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1511 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1512 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1513 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
1514 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1515 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
1517 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
1518 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1521 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1523 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
1525 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1526 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1527 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1528 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1529 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1530 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1531 from a security and performance perspective.
1533 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1534 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1535 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1536 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1538 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
1539 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1540 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1541 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
1542 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1544 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
1545 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
1546 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1547 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1550 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1551 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1552 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
1554 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
1556 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1557 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1560 * The copy_file_range function was added.
1562 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1564 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1565 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1566 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1568 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1569 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1570 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1571 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1572 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1573 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1574 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1576 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1577 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1578 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1579 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1580 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1581 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1582 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1584 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1585 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1586 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1587 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1590 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1591 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1592 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1593 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1595 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1596 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1597 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1599 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1600 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1601 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1603 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1604 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1605 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1611 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1613 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1614 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1615 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1616 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1617 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1618 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1619 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1620 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1621 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1624 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1625 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1626 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1628 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1629 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1630 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1631 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1632 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1633 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1634 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1635 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1636 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1637 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1638 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1639 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1640 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1641 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1642 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1643 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1644 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1645 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1646 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1647 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1648 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1649 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1650 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1651 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1652 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1653 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1655 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1656 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1658 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1659 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1660 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1661 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1662 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1663 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1664 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1666 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1667 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1668 exp10l for these functions instead.
1670 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1671 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1672 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1674 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1675 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1678 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1679 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1680 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1681 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1683 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1684 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1686 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1687 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1689 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1692 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1694 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1695 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1696 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1699 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1700 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1701 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1702 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1703 use, but predates the bits convention.
1705 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1707 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1710 Security related changes:
1712 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1713 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1714 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1715 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1718 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1719 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1720 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1721 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1723 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1724 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1725 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1728 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1729 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1730 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1732 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1733 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1734 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1735 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1737 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1738 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1739 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1742 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1743 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1744 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1745 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1746 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1748 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1749 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1752 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1753 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1754 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1756 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1757 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1758 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1760 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1761 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1762 small, instead of NULL.
1764 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1766 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1767 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1768 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1770 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1771 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1772 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1774 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1775 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1776 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1777 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1778 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1779 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1780 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1781 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1782 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1784 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1785 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1786 width Latin characters
1787 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1788 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1789 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1791 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1792 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1794 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1795 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1796 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1797 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1798 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1800 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1801 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1802 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1803 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1804 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1805 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1806 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1807 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1808 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1809 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1811 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1812 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1813 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1814 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1815 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1816 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1817 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1818 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1820 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1821 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1823 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1824 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1826 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1827 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1828 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1829 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1830 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1831 __regcall calling convention
1832 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1833 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1834 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1835 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1836 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1837 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1838 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1839 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1840 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1841 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1842 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1843 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1844 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1846 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1848 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1850 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1851 consistency check failures
1852 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1853 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1854 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1855 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1857 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1859 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1860 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1861 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1862 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1863 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1864 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1865 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1866 on memory allocation failure
1867 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1868 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1870 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1872 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1873 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1874 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1875 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1876 instead of EAI_NODATA
1877 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1878 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1879 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1880 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1882 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1883 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1884 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1885 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1886 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1887 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1888 allocation in syscall loops)
1889 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1890 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1891 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1892 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1893 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1894 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1895 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1896 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1897 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1899 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1900 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1901 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1903 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1904 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1906 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1908 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1909 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1910 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1911 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1912 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1913 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1914 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1915 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1916 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1917 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1918 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1919 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1920 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1921 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1922 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1923 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1924 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1925 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1927 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1929 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1930 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1932 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1933 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1934 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1935 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1937 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1938 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1939 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1940 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1941 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1942 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1943 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1944 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1945 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1946 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1947 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1949 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1950 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1951 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1952 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1953 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1954 the svid compat wrapper
1955 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1956 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1957 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1958 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1959 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1960 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1962 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1963 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1965 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1966 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1967 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1968 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1969 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1970 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1972 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1973 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1974 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1975 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1977 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1978 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1980 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1981 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1982 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1983 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1984 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1985 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1986 inside the ASCII printable range
1987 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1989 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1990 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1991 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1993 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1994 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1996 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1997 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1998 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2000 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2001 networking interface
2002 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2003 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2004 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2005 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2006 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2007 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2008 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2009 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2010 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2012 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2013 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2014 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2015 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2016 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2017 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2018 same as for Croatian
2019 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2020 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2021 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2023 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2025 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2026 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2027 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2028 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2029 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2031 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2032 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2033 modified in case of success
2034 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2035 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2037 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2039 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2040 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2041 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2042 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2043 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2044 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2045 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2046 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2048 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2049 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2050 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2051 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2052 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2053 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2054 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2055 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2056 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2058 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2059 elision and tunables
2060 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2062 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2063 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2064 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2066 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2067 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2069 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2070 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2071 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2072 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2073 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2074 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2075 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2076 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2077 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2084 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2085 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2086 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2087 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2088 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2089 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2090 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2092 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2093 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
2094 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2095 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2096 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2097 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2098 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
2100 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2101 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2104 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
2106 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2107 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2108 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
2110 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2111 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2112 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2113 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2114 object are still limited to six search domains.
2116 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2117 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2118 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
2120 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2121 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
2123 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2124 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2125 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2126 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
2128 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2129 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2130 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2131 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
2133 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2134 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2135 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2136 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2138 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2139 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2140 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
2142 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
2143 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2144 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2145 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2147 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
2148 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2149 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2150 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2151 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2153 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2154 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2155 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2156 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2157 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2158 interfaces should be used instead.
2160 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2162 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2163 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2164 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2165 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2166 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2167 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2168 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2169 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2171 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2174 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
2175 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2176 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2177 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2179 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2180 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2183 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2184 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2185 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
2186 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2187 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2189 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2190 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2191 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2192 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2194 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2195 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2196 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2197 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2199 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2200 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
2202 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2203 exported by accident.
2205 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2206 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2207 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2209 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2210 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2211 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2212 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2214 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2216 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2218 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2221 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2222 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2224 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2225 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2227 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2228 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2229 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2230 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2231 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2232 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2233 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2234 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2236 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2237 synced with the kernel:
2239 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2240 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2242 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2243 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2244 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2246 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2247 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2249 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2251 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2252 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2255 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
2257 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2258 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
2260 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2261 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2262 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2263 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2264 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
2266 Security related changes:
2268 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
2269 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2271 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2272 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2274 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2275 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2278 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2279 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
2281 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2283 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2284 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2285 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2287 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2289 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2290 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2291 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2293 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2294 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2295 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2296 x86 and other generic code
2297 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2298 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2300 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2301 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2302 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2303 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2304 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2305 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2306 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2308 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2309 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2310 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2311 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2313 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2314 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2316 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2318 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2319 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2320 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2322 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2323 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2324 failures consistently
2325 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2326 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2327 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2328 frame-pointer on i386
2329 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2331 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2332 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2333 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2334 generic c code is used
2335 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2336 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2338 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2340 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2341 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2343 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2344 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2345 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2346 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2347 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2348 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2349 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2350 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2351 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2352 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2354 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2356 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2357 new posix_spawn implementation
2358 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2359 leads to lower CPU frequency
2360 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2361 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2362 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2363 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2364 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2365 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2366 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2367 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2368 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2369 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2370 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2371 not support gethostbyname4_r
2372 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2374 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2376 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2377 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2378 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2379 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2380 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2381 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2382 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2384 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2385 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2386 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2387 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2388 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2389 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2390 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2391 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2392 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2393 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2394 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2395 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2397 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2398 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2399 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2400 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2401 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2402 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2403 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2404 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2406 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2407 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2408 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2409 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2410 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2411 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2412 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2413 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2414 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2415 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2416 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2417 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2418 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2419 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2420 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2421 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2422 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2423 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2424 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2425 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2426 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2428 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2429 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2430 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2431 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2432 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2434 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2435 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2437 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2438 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2440 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2441 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2443 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2444 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2445 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2446 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2448 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2449 leading to relocation crash
2450 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2451 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2452 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2453 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2454 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2455 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2456 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2457 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2458 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2460 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2462 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2463 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2464 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2465 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2466 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2467 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2468 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2469 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2471 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2473 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2475 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2476 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2477 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2478 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2479 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2480 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2481 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2482 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2483 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2484 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2485 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2486 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2487 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2488 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2489 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2490 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2491 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2492 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2493 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2494 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2495 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2496 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2497 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2498 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2499 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2500 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2501 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2503 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2504 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2505 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2506 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2507 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
2512 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2513 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2514 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2517 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2518 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2519 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
2522 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2523 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2524 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2527 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2528 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2529 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2530 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2531 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2532 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2533 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2536 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2537 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2540 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2541 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2542 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2544 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2545 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2546 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2547 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2550 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
2551 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2552 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
2554 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2555 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
2556 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2557 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2558 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2559 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2560 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2561 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2562 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2563 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2564 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2567 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2569 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2571 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2572 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2573 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2575 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2576 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2578 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2581 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2583 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2585 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2586 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2588 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2590 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2591 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2593 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2594 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2596 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2597 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2598 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2600 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2601 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2602 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2603 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2604 effects of the memory clear).
2606 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2607 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2608 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2609 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2611 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2612 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2613 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2614 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2615 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2616 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2618 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2621 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2622 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2623 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2624 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2625 as large as several megabytes.
2627 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2628 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2631 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2632 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2633 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2634 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2635 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2636 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2637 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2639 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2640 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2641 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2642 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2644 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2645 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2646 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2649 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2650 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2651 They were already unimplemented.
2653 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2654 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2655 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2656 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2658 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2659 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2660 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2661 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2662 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2664 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2665 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2666 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2667 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2668 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2670 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2671 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2672 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2673 did not reflect that.
2675 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2676 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2677 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2678 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2679 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2680 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2681 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2684 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2685 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2686 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2687 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2689 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2690 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2691 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2692 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2694 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2695 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2698 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2699 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2702 Security related changes:
2704 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2705 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2706 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2707 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2708 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2710 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2711 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2712 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2713 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2716 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2718 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2719 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2721 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2722 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2723 before it started waiting
2724 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2725 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2726 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2727 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2729 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2730 library linked with pthread
2731 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2732 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2733 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2734 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2735 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2736 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2737 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2739 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2741 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2742 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2743 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2744 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2745 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2746 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2747 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2748 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2749 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2751 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2752 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2753 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2754 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2755 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2756 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2757 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2758 causes a segmentation fault
2759 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2761 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2762 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2764 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2766 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2767 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2768 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2770 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2771 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2773 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2774 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2775 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2776 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2777 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2778 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2779 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2780 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2782 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2783 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2784 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2786 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2788 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2790 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2791 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2792 cause transition penalty
2793 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2794 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2795 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2796 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2797 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2799 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2801 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2802 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2803 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2804 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2805 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2806 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2808 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2810 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2811 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2812 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2813 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2814 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2815 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2816 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2817 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2818 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2819 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2820 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2821 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2822 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2823 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2825 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2826 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2827 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2828 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2829 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2830 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2831 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2832 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2833 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2834 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2835 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2836 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2837 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2838 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2839 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2840 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2841 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2842 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2844 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2845 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2846 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2847 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2848 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2850 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2851 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2852 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2853 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2854 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2855 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2856 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2858 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2859 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2860 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2861 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2862 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2866 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2867 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2868 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2869 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2870 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2873 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2874 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2875 been included in previous releases.
2877 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2878 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2880 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2881 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2882 instead of “union wait”.
2884 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2885 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2886 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2887 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2888 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2889 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2890 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2892 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2895 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2896 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2899 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2900 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2901 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2902 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2903 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2906 Security related changes:
2908 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2909 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2910 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2912 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2913 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2914 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2915 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
2917 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2918 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2919 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2921 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2922 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2923 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2925 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2926 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2927 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2928 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2930 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2932 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2933 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2935 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2936 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2937 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2938 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2939 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2940 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2941 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2942 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2944 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2945 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2946 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2947 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2948 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2949 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2951 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2953 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2954 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2955 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2956 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2957 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2958 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2959 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2960 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2961 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2962 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2963 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2965 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2966 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2967 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2968 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2969 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2970 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2972 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2973 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2975 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2976 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2977 Romanian locale data
2978 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2980 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2981 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2983 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2984 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2985 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2986 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2988 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2990 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2991 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2992 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2993 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2994 when using RTLD_NEXT
2995 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2996 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2997 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2998 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2999 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3000 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3001 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3002 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3003 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3005 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3006 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3007 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3008 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3010 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3012 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3014 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3015 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3016 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3017 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3018 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3019 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3021 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3022 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3024 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3025 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3027 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3029 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3031 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3032 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3033 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3034 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3035 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3036 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3037 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3038 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3039 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3040 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3041 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3042 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3043 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3044 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3046 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3048 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3049 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3050 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3051 response to getaddrinfo
3052 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3053 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3054 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3055 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3056 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3057 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3059 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3060 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3061 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3063 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3064 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3065 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3066 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3068 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3069 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3070 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3072 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3073 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3074 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3075 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3076 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3077 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3078 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3079 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3081 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3082 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3083 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3085 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3086 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3087 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3088 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3089 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3090 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3091 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3092 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3093 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3094 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3095 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3096 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3097 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3099 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3100 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3101 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3102 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3104 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3105 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3107 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3108 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3109 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3110 AS not supporting AVX512
3111 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3113 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3114 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3116 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3117 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3118 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3119 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3120 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3122 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3123 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3125 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3126 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3127 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3128 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3129 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3130 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3131 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3132 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3133 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3135 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3136 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3137 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3138 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3139 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3140 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3141 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3142 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3143 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3144 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3145 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3146 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3147 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3149 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3150 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3151 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3152 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3153 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3155 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3156 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3158 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3159 "invalid" exceptions
3160 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3161 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3162 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3163 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3164 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3165 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3166 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3167 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3168 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
3172 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3173 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3174 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3175 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3176 89, 16061, and 18568.
3178 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3179 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3180 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3181 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3182 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3183 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3184 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3186 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3187 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3188 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3190 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3191 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3192 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3193 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3194 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3195 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3196 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3198 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3199 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3200 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3201 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3202 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
3203 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
3204 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3207 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3208 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3209 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3210 independent of the GNU C Library.
3212 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3213 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
3215 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3216 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3217 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3218 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3219 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3222 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3223 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
3225 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3226 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3227 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3228 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3229 defining their own copy.
3231 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3232 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3233 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3235 Security related changes:
3237 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3238 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3240 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3241 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3242 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3243 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3246 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3247 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3249 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3250 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3252 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3253 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
3254 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
3256 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3257 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3258 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3259 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3260 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3261 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3262 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3263 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3264 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3265 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3266 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3267 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3268 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3270 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3272 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3273 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3274 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3275 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3276 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3277 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3279 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3280 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3281 overflow/underflow errors
3282 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3284 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3285 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3286 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3287 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3288 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3289 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3291 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3292 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3293 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3294 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3295 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3296 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3297 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3298 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3299 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3301 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3303 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3304 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3305 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3307 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3308 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3309 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3310 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3311 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3313 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3314 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3316 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3317 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3318 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3319 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3320 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3321 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3322 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3323 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3325 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3326 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3327 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3328 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3329 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3331 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3332 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3334 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3335 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3336 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3337 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3338 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3340 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3341 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3342 (related to lock elision)
3343 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3344 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3345 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3346 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3348 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3349 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3350 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3351 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3352 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3353 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3354 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3355 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3356 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3357 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3358 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3359 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3360 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3361 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3362 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3363 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3364 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3365 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3366 contains a vector instruction exception.
3367 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3368 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3370 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3371 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3372 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3373 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3374 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3376 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3378 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3379 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3381 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3382 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3383 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3384 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3385 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3387 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3388 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3389 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3390 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3391 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3392 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3393 statically too large
3394 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3395 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3396 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3397 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3398 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3399 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3400 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3401 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3402 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3404 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3405 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3406 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3407 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3408 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3409 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3410 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3412 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3413 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3414 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3415 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3417 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3418 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3419 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3420 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3421 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3422 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3424 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3425 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3426 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3427 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3428 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3429 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3431 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3432 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3433 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3434 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3435 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3436 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3437 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3438 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3440 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3441 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3442 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3443 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3444 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3445 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3446 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3447 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3448 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3450 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3452 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3453 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3454 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3456 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3457 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3458 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3459 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3460 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3461 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3462 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3463 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3464 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3465 pthread_setaffinity_np
3466 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3467 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3468 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3469 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3470 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3472 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3473 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3474 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3475 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3476 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3477 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3478 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3480 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3481 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3482 for C99-based standards
3483 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3484 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3486 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3487 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3488 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3490 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3491 "inexact" exceptions
3492 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3494 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3495 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3496 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3497 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3499 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3500 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3501 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3502 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3503 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3504 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3505 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3506 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3507 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3508 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3510 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3511 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3512 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3513 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3515 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3516 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3517 error on 32-bit architectures
3518 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3519 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3520 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3521 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3522 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3523 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3524 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3525 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3526 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3528 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3530 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3531 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3532 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3533 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3535 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
3539 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3541 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
3542 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3543 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3544 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3545 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3546 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3547 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3548 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3549 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3550 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3551 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3552 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3553 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3554 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3555 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3556 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3557 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3558 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
3559 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3560 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
3562 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3563 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3565 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3566 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3567 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3568 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3569 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3570 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
3572 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3573 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3574 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3575 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3576 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3578 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3579 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3580 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3582 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3583 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3584 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3587 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3588 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3589 condition in some applications.
3591 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3592 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3594 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3595 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3596 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3597 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3598 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3600 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3601 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3602 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3603 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3605 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3606 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3607 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3609 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3610 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3612 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3613 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3614 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3616 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3617 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3618 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3622 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3624 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3625 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3626 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3627 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3628 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3629 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3630 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3631 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3632 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3633 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3636 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3637 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3638 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3639 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3642 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3643 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3644 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3645 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3646 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3647 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3649 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3651 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3652 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3653 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3655 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3656 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3657 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3658 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3659 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3660 effects being visible outside transactions.
3662 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3663 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3665 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3667 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3668 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3669 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3670 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3671 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3673 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3674 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3676 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3677 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3680 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3681 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3682 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3684 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3685 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3687 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3689 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3690 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3691 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3692 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3694 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3695 with newer versions of bison.
3697 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3698 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3699 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3700 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3701 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3702 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3703 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3704 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3705 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3706 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3707 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3708 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3709 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3711 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3712 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3713 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3714 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3715 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3719 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3721 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3722 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3723 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3724 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3725 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3726 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3727 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3728 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3729 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3730 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3731 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3732 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3733 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3734 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3735 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3737 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3738 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3739 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3740 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3741 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3742 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3743 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3744 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3745 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3746 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3748 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3749 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3750 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3751 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3752 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3754 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3756 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3757 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3759 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3760 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3761 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3762 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3763 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3764 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3766 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3769 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3770 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3771 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3772 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3773 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3774 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3775 test macros defined.
3777 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3779 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3780 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3781 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3782 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3783 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3784 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3787 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3788 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3789 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3790 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3793 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3794 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3795 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
3797 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3798 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3799 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3800 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
3802 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3803 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3804 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3805 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3806 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3807 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3808 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3811 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3812 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3813 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3814 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3815 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3816 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3817 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3818 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3819 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
3821 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3822 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3823 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3824 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3825 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
3826 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
3828 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3829 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3830 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3831 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
3835 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3837 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3838 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3839 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3840 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3841 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3842 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3843 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3844 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3845 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3846 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
3847 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3848 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3849 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3850 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3851 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
3852 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3853 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3854 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
3856 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3857 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3859 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3860 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3861 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
3862 extension which uses __block.
3864 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3865 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3866 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3867 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3868 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3870 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3871 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3872 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3873 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3876 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3877 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3878 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3879 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3880 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
3882 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3883 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3884 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3886 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3887 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3888 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3891 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3892 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3894 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
3895 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
3897 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3899 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3902 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
3904 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3906 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3907 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3908 for which the C library was built.
3910 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3911 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3912 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3913 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3914 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3915 in the following circumstances:
3917 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3919 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3920 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3922 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3923 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3925 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3926 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
3928 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3930 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3931 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3933 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
3935 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
3937 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
3939 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3940 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3941 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3942 disable some of those declarations.
3944 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
3945 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3946 that did nothing) has also been removed.
3948 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3949 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
3951 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3952 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3953 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3954 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3955 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3956 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3957 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3958 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3959 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3960 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3961 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3962 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3963 require recompilation.
3967 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3969 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
3970 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3971 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
3972 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3973 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3974 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3975 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3976 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3977 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3978 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3979 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3980 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3981 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3984 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3985 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3986 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3987 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3988 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3989 understands and accepts the risks.
3991 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3994 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3995 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
3997 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3998 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3999 destructor calls to glibc.
4001 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4004 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4005 non-x86 architectures.
4007 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4009 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4011 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4014 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4016 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4019 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4020 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4022 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4024 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4025 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4027 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4028 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4030 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4031 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4032 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4034 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4035 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4036 attributes of a process.
4038 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4039 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4040 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4041 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4044 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4045 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4047 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4051 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4053 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4054 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4055 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4056 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4057 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4058 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4059 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4060 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4061 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4062 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4063 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4064 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4065 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4066 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4067 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4069 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4071 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4072 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4074 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4075 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4077 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4079 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4080 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4082 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4084 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4085 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4086 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4088 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4089 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4091 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4092 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4094 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4095 can be used with is 2.6.16.
4097 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4098 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4100 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4101 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
4102 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4103 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
4105 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4106 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4108 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
4109 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
4112 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4113 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4114 information in --help and --version output.
4116 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4117 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4118 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4120 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4121 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4122 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4123 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4124 when the mode is enabled.
4126 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4127 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4128 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4129 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4130 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4131 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4132 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
4134 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4139 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4141 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4142 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4143 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4144 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4145 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4146 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4147 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4148 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4149 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4150 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4151 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4152 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4153 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4154 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4155 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4156 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4157 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4158 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4159 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4160 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4161 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4162 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4165 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4166 configuring glibc with:
4167 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
4168 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
4169 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4173 + define static_assert
4175 + do not declare gets
4177 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4179 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4180 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4181 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4184 + timespec_get added
4186 + uchar.h support added
4188 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4190 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4192 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
4194 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
4196 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4199 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4200 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4202 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4203 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4204 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4205 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4206 existing applications.
4208 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
4209 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4212 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4213 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4214 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4216 * New locales: mag_IN
4218 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4219 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4220 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4221 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4222 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
4224 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4226 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4229 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4231 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4232 without a previously built glibc.
4234 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4235 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4237 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4238 now supported for ARM processors.
4240 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4241 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4242 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4244 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
4246 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4247 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4248 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4249 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
4251 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4252 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4253 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4254 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4256 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4257 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4258 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4259 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4260 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4262 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4263 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4264 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4265 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
4269 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4271 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4272 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4273 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4274 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4275 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4276 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4277 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
4279 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4280 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4282 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4283 and support for initgroups lookups.
4284 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4286 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4287 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4289 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4290 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4292 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4293 on x86-32 and x86-64.
4294 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4296 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
4297 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4299 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4300 for x86-64 and x86-32.
4301 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4303 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4304 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4306 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4307 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4309 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4310 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4312 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4313 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4315 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4316 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4318 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4319 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4321 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
4323 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4324 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4326 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4327 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
4329 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
4333 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4335 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
4336 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
4337 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
4338 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4339 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4340 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4341 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4342 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4343 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4344 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4346 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4347 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4348 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
4349 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
4351 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
4352 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4353 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
4354 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4356 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
4357 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
4359 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
4360 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
4362 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
4364 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4365 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4367 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4368 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4369 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4370 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
4374 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4376 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4377 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4378 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4379 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4382 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
4384 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
4386 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4387 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
4388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4392 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4394 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4395 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4396 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4397 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
4398 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4399 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4400 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
4401 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
4403 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
4405 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4407 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4409 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4410 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4411 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4413 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4414 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4415 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4416 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4417 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4419 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
4423 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4425 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4426 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4427 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4428 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4429 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4430 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4432 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4434 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4436 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
4437 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4439 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4440 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4442 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4444 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
4445 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
4446 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
4447 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4449 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
4450 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4452 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4454 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4456 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4457 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4459 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4460 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4462 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4463 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4465 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4466 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4467 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4468 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4469 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4470 necessity is every process again.
4471 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4473 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4474 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4476 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4477 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4479 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4480 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4481 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4483 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
4487 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4489 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4490 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4491 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4492 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4493 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4495 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
4496 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4498 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
4499 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4501 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
4502 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
4504 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4507 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
4508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4510 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4511 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4513 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4514 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4516 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4517 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4519 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4520 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4521 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4523 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
4525 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
4526 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4528 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4529 and extend existing format specifiers.
4530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4532 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4535 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4536 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4537 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4538 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4539 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4540 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4544 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4546 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4547 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4548 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4549 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4550 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4552 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
4553 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4555 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4556 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
4558 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4559 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4561 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4562 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4563 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4565 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4566 Implemented by Eric Blake.
4568 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
4570 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
4571 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4573 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4574 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4575 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4576 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4578 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4579 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4581 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4583 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4585 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4589 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4591 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4592 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4593 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4594 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4595 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4596 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4597 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4599 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4601 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4603 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4604 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4606 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4608 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4609 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4611 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4612 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4614 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4615 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4616 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4618 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4619 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4621 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4622 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4624 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4625 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4627 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4628 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4632 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4634 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4635 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4636 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4637 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4638 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4640 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4641 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4643 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4645 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4646 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4647 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4649 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4650 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4652 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4653 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4655 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4657 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4658 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4660 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4661 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4663 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4664 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4666 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4668 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4669 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4671 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4672 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4675 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4676 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4680 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4682 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4683 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4684 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4685 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4686 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4687 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4688 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4691 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4693 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4695 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4699 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4701 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4702 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4703 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4704 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4705 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4706 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4707 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4708 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4709 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4711 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4712 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4715 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4716 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4718 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4720 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4722 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4723 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4724 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4725 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4726 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4728 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4729 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4730 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4731 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4733 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4736 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4738 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4741 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4743 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4744 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4748 * More overflow detection functions.
4750 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4751 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4753 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4754 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4755 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4756 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4757 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4758 by Masahide Washizawa.
4760 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4761 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4763 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4764 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4765 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4766 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4768 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4769 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4771 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4773 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4774 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4775 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4777 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4778 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4780 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4781 for compatibility with some other systems.
4783 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4787 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4789 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4790 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4791 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4792 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4793 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4794 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4796 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4798 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4800 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
4804 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4806 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4807 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4808 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4809 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4811 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4815 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4816 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4818 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4819 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4820 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4822 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4823 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4825 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
4827 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4829 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4830 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4833 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4834 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
4835 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4837 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
4838 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4840 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4841 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4842 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4843 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4845 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4846 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4847 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
4848 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4850 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4851 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4852 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4853 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4854 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
4858 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4859 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4861 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4862 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
4864 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
4865 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4867 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4868 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4870 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4873 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
4876 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4881 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4882 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4883 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4884 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4885 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4886 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4887 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4888 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4889 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4891 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4892 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4893 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4895 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
4897 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4898 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
4900 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4901 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4903 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
4905 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4906 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
4908 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4909 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4910 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4911 of weak definition in ld.so.
4913 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4914 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4916 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4917 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
4921 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4924 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4925 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
4927 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
4928 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
4930 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4931 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
4933 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
4934 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4935 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4937 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4938 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
4940 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
4941 implementation of regex.
4943 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4946 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4947 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
4949 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4950 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4951 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
4953 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
4954 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
4956 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4957 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4958 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
4960 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4961 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4963 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4964 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4967 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
4971 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4972 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4974 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4975 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
4979 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4980 128-bit long double format.
4982 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4983 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
4985 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
4987 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4989 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4992 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4993 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
4995 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
4999 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
5000 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
5002 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5003 support Unicode 3.1.
5005 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5006 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
5008 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
5010 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
5011 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5012 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5014 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5015 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5017 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5018 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5020 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5024 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5025 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5026 in float, double, and long double format.
5028 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5029 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5030 128-bit long double format.
5032 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5033 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5034 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5035 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5037 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5038 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5039 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5041 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5042 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5044 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5045 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5047 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5048 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5049 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5051 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5052 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5054 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5055 of functions for Linux/x86.
5057 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5061 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5062 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5063 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5064 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5065 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5066 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5069 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5070 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5072 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5073 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5074 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5075 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5077 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5082 only lists the names of the supported locales
5086 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5087 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5091 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5092 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5093 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5094 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5095 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5097 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5099 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5101 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
5103 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5104 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5105 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
5107 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5108 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5110 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5111 changed from the default "C" locale.
5113 * The usual bug fixes.
5117 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5118 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5121 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5123 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
5125 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5126 obviously requires a database library being available.
5128 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5130 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
5132 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5133 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5135 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5137 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5138 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5141 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5142 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5143 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
5145 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
5146 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5148 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5149 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5150 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5152 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5153 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5154 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5155 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5157 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5158 structures for the wide character tables.
5160 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5162 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
5164 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5166 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5169 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5171 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5173 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5175 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5177 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5179 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5180 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5181 implemented for Linux.
5183 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5184 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5185 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5188 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5191 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
5205 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5207 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5209 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
5211 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5213 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
5215 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
5217 * Update timezone data files.
5219 * lots of charmaps corrections
5221 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
5226 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5227 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5228 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5229 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5230 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5231 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5233 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
5234 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5236 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
5239 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5240 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
5242 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
5244 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
5247 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
5249 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5250 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
5252 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5255 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
5256 functions from ISO C 9X.
5258 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5259 real valued functions.
5261 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
5263 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5265 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
5267 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
5269 * Optimized string functions have been added.
5271 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
5273 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5275 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5276 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5278 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5279 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5283 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
5285 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
5287 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
5289 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5291 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5293 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
5295 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5296 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
5299 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5300 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
5302 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
5304 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
5306 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5307 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5309 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
5311 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5314 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5315 latest draft standards.
5317 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5319 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5320 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5321 addseverity NEW: Unix98
5322 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
5323 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5324 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5325 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5326 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5327 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5328 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5329 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5330 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5331 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5332 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
5333 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5334 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5335 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
5336 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5337 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5338 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5340 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5341 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5342 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5343 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5344 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5351 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5352 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5353 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5354 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5355 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5357 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5358 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5359 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5360 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5361 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5362 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5366 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5367 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5373 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5374 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5375 clearerr_locked REMOVED
5376 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5378 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5379 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5380 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5390 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5391 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5393 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5394 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5399 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5400 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5403 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5404 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5408 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5409 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5411 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5412 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5413 endutxent NEW: Unix98
5415 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5416 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5420 fattach NEW: STREAMS
5421 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5425 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5426 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5427 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5428 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5429 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5431 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5432 ferror_locked REMOVED
5433 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5434 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5435 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5436 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5437 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5438 fflush_locked REMOVED
5442 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5443 fileno_locked REMOVED
5455 fputc_locked REMOVED
5456 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5457 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5462 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5466 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5468 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5469 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5473 getchar_locked REMOVED
5475 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5476 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5478 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
5479 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
5480 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5481 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5482 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5483 getutxent NEW: Unix98
5484 getutxid NEW: Unix98
5485 getutxline NEW: Unix98
5486 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5487 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5488 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5489 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5490 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5491 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5493 iconv_close NEW: iconv
5494 iconv_open NEW: iconv
5495 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5496 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5497 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5498 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5499 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5500 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5501 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5502 isastream NEW: STREAMS
5503 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
5504 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5505 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5506 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5507 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5508 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5509 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5510 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5511 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5512 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
5513 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5514 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5515 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5516 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5517 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5518 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5523 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5524 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5525 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5526 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5527 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5529 makecontext NEW: Unix98
5530 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5533 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5537 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5538 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5539 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5540 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5541 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
5542 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5543 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5544 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
5548 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
5550 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5551 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5554 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5555 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5556 profil_counter REMOVED
5557 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5558 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5559 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5560 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5562 putchar_locked REMOVED
5563 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5565 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5566 pututxline NEW: Unix98
5570 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5571 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5572 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5573 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5575 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5576 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5578 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5579 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5580 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5582 sendfile NEW: kernel
5583 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5584 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5585 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5587 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5588 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5589 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5590 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5591 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5592 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5593 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5594 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5595 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5599 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5600 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5601 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5602 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5603 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5604 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5605 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5606 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5607 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5608 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5609 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5610 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5611 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5615 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5616 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5618 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5619 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5620 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5621 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5622 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5623 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5625 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5626 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5627 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5628 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5629 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5630 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5631 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5633 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5634 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5635 write_profiling REMOVED
5636 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5637 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5638 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5639 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5640 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5641 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5642 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5643 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5644 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5645 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5646 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5647 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5648 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5649 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5650 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5651 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5662 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5664 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5666 * rewrite of cbrt function
5668 * update of timezone data
5682 * add atoll function
5684 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5686 * fix math functions
5690 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5692 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5694 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5695 the ELF dynamic loader.
5697 * support for parallel builds is improved
5701 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5702 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5705 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5706 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5707 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5708 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5709 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5710 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5711 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5712 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5713 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5714 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5715 files in the ELF format.
5717 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5718 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5720 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5721 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5722 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5723 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5724 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5725 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5726 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5727 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5728 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5729 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5730 about dynamically linked binaries.
5732 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5733 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5734 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5735 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5736 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5738 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5739 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5740 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5741 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5742 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5744 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5746 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5747 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5748 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5749 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5750 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5751 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5752 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5753 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5754 NSS services available.
5756 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5757 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5758 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5760 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5761 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5762 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5764 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5765 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5766 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5767 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5769 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5770 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5771 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5773 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5774 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5775 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5777 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5778 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5780 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5781 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5782 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5783 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5785 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5786 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5787 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5789 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5790 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5791 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5792 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5793 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5794 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
5795 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
5796 the header file <printf.h> for details.
5798 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5799 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5800 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5801 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5802 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5803 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5804 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
5806 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5807 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5808 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5809 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5810 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5811 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5813 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5814 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5816 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5817 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5818 NSS scheme used in glibc.
5820 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5822 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5823 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5824 their use is discouraged.
5826 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5827 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
5829 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5830 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
5832 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5833 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5835 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5838 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5839 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
5840 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5841 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5842 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
5844 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5845 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5846 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5847 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
5849 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5850 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5852 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5853 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5854 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5855 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5858 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5859 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5861 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5862 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5864 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
5865 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
5866 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5867 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
5869 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5871 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5872 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5873 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5875 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5876 for arithmetic and string handling.
5878 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
5879 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5880 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5881 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5883 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5884 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5885 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5886 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5887 programs already written to use it.)
5889 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5892 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5895 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5896 a given effective group ID.
5898 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5899 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5900 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5901 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5903 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
5904 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
5905 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5906 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5907 doing the same thing.
5909 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5910 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5912 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
5913 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
5915 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5917 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5918 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5919 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
5920 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
5921 `-ldb' to get these functions.
5923 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5924 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
5926 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
5927 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5928 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5931 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5933 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5934 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5937 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5938 and writing the utmp file.
5940 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5943 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5944 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5945 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5947 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5948 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5950 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5951 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5954 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5955 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5956 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5957 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5959 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5960 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5961 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5963 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5964 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5965 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5968 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5971 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5974 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5976 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5977 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5978 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
5982 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5984 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5985 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5987 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5988 want to put themselves in the background.
5990 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5991 run without an operating system.
5993 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5994 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5996 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5997 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5999 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6001 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6002 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6005 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6008 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6009 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6013 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6014 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6015 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6017 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6018 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6020 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6021 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6023 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6025 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6027 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6030 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6031 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6032 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6034 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6036 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6037 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6038 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6040 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6041 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6042 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6043 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6044 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6047 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6048 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6049 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6050 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6051 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6054 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6055 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6059 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6060 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6062 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6063 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6064 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6066 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6067 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6068 address of the last character written.
6070 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6071 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6073 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6074 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6076 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6077 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6078 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6079 you dereference this pointer.
6081 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6082 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6084 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6085 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6086 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6087 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6089 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6090 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6091 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6092 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6096 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6097 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6098 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6099 in Emacs or the `info' program.
6100 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
6102 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6104 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6106 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6107 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6109 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6110 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6112 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6113 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6115 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6116 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6117 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6118 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6119 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6121 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6122 to the error code in `errno'.
6124 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6125 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6126 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6129 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6130 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6131 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6133 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6134 uniquely-named temporary file.
6138 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6139 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6140 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6142 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6145 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6146 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6148 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6152 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6153 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6154 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6155 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6157 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6158 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6159 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6161 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6162 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6164 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6165 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6166 made itself into a shared library.
6168 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6169 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6171 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6172 with limited length.
6174 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6176 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6178 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6180 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6181 function for traversing a directory tree.
6183 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6184 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6185 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6186 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6188 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6189 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6191 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6193 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6194 things to your strings.
6196 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6198 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6199 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6200 supporting those systems.
6202 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6203 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6204 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6205 configuration files.
6207 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6208 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6210 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
6211 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6214 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6215 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6216 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6217 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6218 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6219 required storage is not available.
6221 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6222 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
6224 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6225 latest files released from Berkeley.
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