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12 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
13 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
14 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
15 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
16 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
17 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq.
19 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
21 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
23 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
25 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
27 Security related changes:
29 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
30 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
31 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
32 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
33 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
34 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
36 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
38 [The release manager will add the list generated by
39 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
45 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
46 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
47 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
48 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
50 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
52 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
53 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
54 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
55 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
57 Security related changes:
59 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
60 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
61 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
62 portion of the contents of the heap.
64 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
66 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
67 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
68 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
69 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
70 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
71 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
72 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
74 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
75 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
77 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
78 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
79 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
80 gethostbyname and other functions
81 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
82 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
83 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
85 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
86 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
88 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
89 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
91 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
93 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
94 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
95 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
96 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
97 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
98 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
99 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
101 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
102 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
104 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
106 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
108 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
109 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
110 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
111 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
112 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
114 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
115 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
116 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
117 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
119 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
121 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
122 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
123 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
125 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
127 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
129 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
130 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
131 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
132 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
133 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
134 aux.S: No such file or directory)
135 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
136 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
137 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
138 coincides with offset change
139 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
140 length in fortify mode
146 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
147 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
148 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
149 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
150 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
151 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
153 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
154 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
155 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems.
157 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
158 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
161 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
162 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
163 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
164 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
166 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
167 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
168 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
169 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
170 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
171 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
172 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
173 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
174 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
175 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
176 validation by applications.
178 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
179 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
180 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
181 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
184 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
185 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
186 unpredictable output.
188 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
189 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
190 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
191 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
192 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
193 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
194 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
195 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
197 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
198 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
199 quality randomness from the kernel.
201 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
202 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
205 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
207 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
209 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
211 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
212 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
213 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
215 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
216 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
217 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
218 when libc.so is issued directly.
220 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
222 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
224 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
225 return different result with versioned "foo"
226 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
228 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
229 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
230 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
232 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
233 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
234 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
236 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
238 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
240 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
241 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
242 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
243 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
244 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
245 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
246 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
248 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
250 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
251 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
252 (breaks test isolation)
253 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
254 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
255 __convert_scm_timestamps
256 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
257 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
258 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
260 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyone 2038
261 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
262 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
263 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
264 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
265 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
266 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
268 [28936] build: nm: No such file
269 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
270 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
272 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
274 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
275 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
276 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
278 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
280 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
281 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
282 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
283 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
284 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
285 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
286 is promoted to global scope
287 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
288 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
289 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
291 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
293 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
295 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
296 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
297 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
298 before '__fortified_attr_access'
299 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
300 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
301 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
302 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
303 value for filling after \0
304 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
305 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
306 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
308 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
309 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
310 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
311 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
312 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
313 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
314 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
316 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
317 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
318 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
319 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
320 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
321 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
322 missing on microblaze with largefile
328 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
329 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
330 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
332 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
333 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
335 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
336 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
337 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
338 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
339 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
340 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
341 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
342 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
343 glibc, and must be installed.
345 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
346 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
347 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
349 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
350 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
352 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
355 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
356 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
357 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
358 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
359 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
360 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
362 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
363 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
364 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
367 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
368 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
370 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
373 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
375 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
376 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
377 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
379 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
380 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
381 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
382 object dependency cases.
384 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
385 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
386 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
387 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
389 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
390 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
391 return value is only used for its boolean status.
393 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
394 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
395 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
396 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
397 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
398 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
399 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
400 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
401 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
402 Restartable Sequences.
404 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
405 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
407 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
408 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
409 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
410 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
411 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
412 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
413 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
416 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
417 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
418 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
419 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
420 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
423 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
424 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
426 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
427 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
430 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
431 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
436 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
437 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
439 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
440 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
441 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
442 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
443 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
445 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
446 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
448 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
449 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
450 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
452 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
453 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
454 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
455 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
458 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
459 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
461 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
463 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
464 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
465 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
467 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
468 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
470 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
471 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
473 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
475 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
477 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
478 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
479 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
481 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
482 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
483 catching coredumps and backtraces.
485 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
486 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
487 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
489 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
490 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
491 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
493 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
494 support prelink PIE binaries.
496 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
498 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
499 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
500 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
501 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
502 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
504 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
505 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
506 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
507 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
509 Security related changes:
511 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
512 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
513 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
515 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
516 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
518 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
519 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
520 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
522 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
523 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
524 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
525 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
526 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
528 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
530 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
531 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
532 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
533 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
535 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
536 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
538 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
540 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
541 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
542 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
543 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
544 ID whose lifetime has not ended
545 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
547 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
549 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
550 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
551 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
552 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
553 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
554 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
555 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
556 --enable-initfini-array
557 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
558 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
559 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
560 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
561 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
562 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
564 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
565 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
566 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
568 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
569 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
570 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
572 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
573 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
575 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
576 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
577 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
579 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
580 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
581 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
582 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
583 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
584 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
585 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
587 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
589 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
590 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
592 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
593 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
594 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
595 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
596 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
597 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
598 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
600 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
602 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
603 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
604 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
605 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
607 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
608 systems with TIMESIZE=64
609 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
610 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
611 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
612 spurious NUL character on state reset
613 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
615 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
616 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
618 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
619 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
621 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
622 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
623 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
624 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
625 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
626 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
628 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
630 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
631 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
632 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
633 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
635 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
636 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
637 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
638 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
639 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
640 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
641 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
642 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
643 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
644 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
645 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
646 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
647 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
648 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
650 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
652 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
653 results (CVE-2021-3998)
654 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
656 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
657 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
659 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
661 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
662 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
663 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
670 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
671 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
672 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
673 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
674 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
675 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
676 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
677 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
678 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
679 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
680 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
681 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
682 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
683 potentially exposing application bugs.
685 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
686 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
687 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
688 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
690 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
691 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
692 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
693 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
694 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
697 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
698 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
699 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
701 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
702 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
703 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
704 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
706 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
708 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
709 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
710 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
711 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
712 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
714 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
715 --disable-scv configure option.
717 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
718 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
719 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
720 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
721 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
722 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
725 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
726 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
727 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
728 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
729 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
730 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
733 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
734 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
736 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
737 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
738 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
739 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
740 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
741 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
742 is currently a GNU extension.
744 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
745 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
747 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
748 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
749 although it is also present in other systems.
751 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
752 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
753 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
754 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
756 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
757 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
758 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
760 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
762 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
763 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
766 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
767 programs should use the equivalent standard function
768 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
770 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
771 programs should use the equivalent standard function
772 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
774 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
775 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
777 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
779 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
780 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
781 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
782 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
783 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
784 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
785 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
786 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
787 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
788 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
789 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
791 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
792 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
793 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
794 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
795 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
796 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
797 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
798 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
800 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
801 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
802 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
803 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
804 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
805 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
806 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
808 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
809 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
810 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
811 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
812 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
813 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
814 upgrade or downgrade process.
816 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
817 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
818 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
820 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
821 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
822 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
823 no longer have any effect on malloc.
825 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
826 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
827 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
828 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
829 this functionality back.
831 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
832 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
833 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
834 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
836 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
837 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
838 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
839 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
840 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
841 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
842 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
843 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
844 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
846 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
848 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
849 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
850 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
851 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
853 Security related changes:
855 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
856 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
857 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
858 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
860 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
861 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
862 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
864 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
865 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
866 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
868 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
870 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
871 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
872 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
873 given integer (closefrom)
874 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
875 name containing multi-byte character(s)
876 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
877 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
878 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
879 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
880 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
882 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
883 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
884 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
885 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
886 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
887 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
888 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
890 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
891 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
892 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
893 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
894 pthread_create and dlopen
895 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
896 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
897 when non-root user changes priority
898 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
900 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
901 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
902 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
904 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
905 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
907 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
908 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
909 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
910 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
912 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
913 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
914 the right free implementation
915 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
916 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
917 shm_open to pick wrong directory
918 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
919 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
921 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
922 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
923 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
924 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
925 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
926 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
927 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
929 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
930 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
932 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
933 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
934 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
935 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
936 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
937 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
939 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
940 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
941 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
942 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
943 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
944 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
945 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
946 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
948 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
949 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
951 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
952 information for the current directory
953 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
954 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
956 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
957 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
959 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
960 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
961 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
962 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
964 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
965 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
966 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
967 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
968 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
969 tries resolving them lazily
970 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
972 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
973 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
975 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
976 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
977 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
979 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
981 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
982 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
983 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
985 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
986 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
987 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
988 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
989 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
990 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
991 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
992 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
993 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
995 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
996 thread never allocated anything
997 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
998 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
999 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1000 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1001 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1003 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1004 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1005 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1007 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1015 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1016 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1017 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1019 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1020 to change argv[0] string.
1022 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1023 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1024 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1025 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1026 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1027 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1028 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1029 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1030 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1032 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1033 information and library search path diagnostics.
1035 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1036 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1037 larger than fit in an integer.
1039 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1041 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1042 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1048 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1051 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1052 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1053 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1054 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1057 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1059 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1062 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1063 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1064 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1066 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1067 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1068 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1071 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1072 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1073 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1075 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1076 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1077 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1078 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1079 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1080 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1082 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1083 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1084 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1085 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1086 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1087 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1090 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1092 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1093 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1094 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1095 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1096 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1097 perform any adjustments.
1099 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1100 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1101 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1102 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1104 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1106 Security related changes:
1108 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1109 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1110 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1111 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1112 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1114 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1115 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1116 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1118 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1119 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1121 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1122 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1124 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1126 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1127 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1128 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1129 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1131 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1132 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1133 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1134 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1135 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1137 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1139 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1141 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1142 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1143 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1144 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1145 changing gnuc version
1146 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1148 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1150 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1151 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1152 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1153 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1154 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1155 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
1156 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1157 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1158 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1159 too much stack space
1160 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1161 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1162 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1164 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1166 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1167 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1169 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1170 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1171 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1172 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1173 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1175 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1176 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1177 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1179 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1180 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1181 at the end of a memory mapping
1182 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1183 by the caller to the kernel
1184 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1185 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1186 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1187 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1189 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1190 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1191 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1192 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1193 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1194 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1195 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1197 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1198 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1199 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1200 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1202 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1204 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1206 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1207 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1208 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1209 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1211 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1213 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1214 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1215 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1217 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1219 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1221 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1223 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1224 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1225 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1226 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1228 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1230 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1232 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1233 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1234 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1236 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1237 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1238 [27177] dynamic-link:
1239 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1241 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1242 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1243 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1244 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1251 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1252 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1253 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1255 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1257 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1258 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1259 Three ABIs are supported:
1265 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1266 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1268 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1269 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1271 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1272 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1273 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1276 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1277 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1278 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1280 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1281 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1282 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1284 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1285 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1286 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1287 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1290 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1291 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1292 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1293 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1294 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1295 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1297 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1298 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1300 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1301 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1302 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1303 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1304 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1305 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1307 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1308 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1310 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1311 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1312 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1313 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1314 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1315 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1316 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1317 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1318 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1319 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1320 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1323 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1325 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1326 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1327 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1328 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1329 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1330 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1331 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1333 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1334 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1335 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1336 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1337 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1338 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1339 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1340 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1341 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1343 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1344 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1345 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1346 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1347 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1349 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1350 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1351 was not declared in any header file.
1353 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1354 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1355 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1356 sigaction functions instead.
1358 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1359 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1361 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1362 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1363 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1364 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1367 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1368 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1369 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1370 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1371 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1373 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1374 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1375 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1376 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1378 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1379 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1380 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1381 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1382 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1383 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1384 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1386 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1387 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1388 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1389 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1390 flavor of secure RPC.)
1392 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1393 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1394 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1395 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1396 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1397 object, to enable the hooks.
1399 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1400 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1401 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1404 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1406 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1407 long double redirects.
1409 Security related changes:
1411 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1412 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1413 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1415 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1416 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1417 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1419 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1420 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1422 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1423 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1424 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1427 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1429 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1430 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1431 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1432 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1433 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1434 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1435 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1436 filtee has constructor
1437 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1438 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1439 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1440 character entities for infinity & pi
1441 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1442 segfaults in applications
1443 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1444 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1445 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1446 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1447 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1448 function with -mlong-double-64
1449 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1451 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1453 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1454 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1455 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1456 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1457 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1458 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1460 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1461 dynamically loaded dsos
1462 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1463 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1465 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1466 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1467 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1468 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1469 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1470 stale configuration forever
1471 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1473 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1475 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1476 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1478 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1479 on 32 bit and old kernel
1480 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1481 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1483 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1484 amount of sigset_t bytes
1485 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1487 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1488 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1489 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1490 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1491 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1492 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1493 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1494 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1495 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1496 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1498 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1499 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1500 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1501 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1502 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1503 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1504 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1506 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1507 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1509 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1510 exiting detached thread
1511 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1513 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1515 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1516 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1517 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1518 dependencies in audit mode
1519 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1520 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1521 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1522 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1523 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1525 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1526 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1528 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1529 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1531 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1532 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1533 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1534 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1535 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1536 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1537 corruption in memset
1544 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1545 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1546 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1547 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1548 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1549 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1551 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1552 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1553 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1554 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1556 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1557 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1558 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1560 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1562 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1563 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1564 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1565 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1566 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1567 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1568 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1569 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1571 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1573 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1574 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1575 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1576 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1577 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1578 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1580 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1581 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1582 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1584 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1585 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1586 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1587 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1589 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1590 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1591 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1592 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1593 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1594 made this no longer practical.
1596 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1597 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1598 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1599 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1602 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1603 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1604 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1606 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1607 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1608 using clock_gettime instead.
1610 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1611 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1612 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1613 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1614 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1616 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1617 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1618 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1619 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1621 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1622 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1623 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1624 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1625 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1626 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1628 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1629 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1630 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1631 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1634 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1635 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1636 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1638 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1641 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1642 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1643 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1644 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1645 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1647 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1648 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1649 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1650 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1651 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1652 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1653 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1654 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1656 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1657 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1659 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1660 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1661 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1662 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1663 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1664 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1666 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1668 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1669 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1670 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1672 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1673 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1674 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1676 Security related changes:
1678 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1679 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1681 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1682 environment variable during program execution after a security
1683 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1684 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1685 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1687 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1689 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1690 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1691 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1692 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1693 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1694 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1695 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1696 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1698 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1699 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1700 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1701 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1702 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1703 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1704 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1705 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1706 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1707 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1709 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1711 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1712 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1713 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1714 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1715 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1716 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1717 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1719 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1721 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1722 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1723 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1724 (stringop-overflow error)
1725 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1726 functions other can lead to crashes
1727 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1728 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1730 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1731 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1732 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1733 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1734 still can fail with an error
1735 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1736 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1737 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1738 initialized correctly
1739 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1741 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1742 value to an unsigned
1743 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1744 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1745 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1747 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1749 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1751 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1753 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1754 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1755 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1757 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1758 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1760 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1761 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1762 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1763 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1764 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1765 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1772 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1773 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1774 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1776 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1777 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1779 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1780 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1781 to the callback function.
1783 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1785 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1786 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1789 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1791 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1792 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1793 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1794 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1795 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1797 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1798 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1799 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1800 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1801 link time reference, is gone.
1803 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1804 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1805 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1806 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1807 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1808 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1809 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1810 the clock choice at initialization time).
1812 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1813 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1814 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1816 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1818 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1819 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1820 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1821 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1822 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1823 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1824 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1825 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1826 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1828 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1829 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1830 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1831 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1834 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1835 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1837 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1838 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1840 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1841 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1843 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1846 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1847 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1848 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1850 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1851 header have been removed.
1853 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1854 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1855 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1856 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1858 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1860 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1862 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1863 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1865 Security related changes:
1867 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1868 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1869 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1870 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1871 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1872 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1873 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1875 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1876 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1877 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1879 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1881 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1882 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1883 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1884 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1885 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1886 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1887 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1888 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1889 invalid input drops valid char
1890 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1891 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1892 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1893 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1894 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1896 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1897 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1898 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1899 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1901 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1902 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1903 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1904 for long double = double
1905 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1906 long double = double
1907 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1908 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1909 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1911 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1912 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1914 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1915 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1916 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1917 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1918 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1919 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1920 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1921 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1922 not the default "nor"
1923 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1924 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1925 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1926 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1928 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1929 unnecessary librt dependencies
1930 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1931 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1932 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1933 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1935 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1936 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1938 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1939 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1940 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1941 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1942 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1943 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1944 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1945 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1946 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1947 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1948 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1949 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1951 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1953 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1954 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1956 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1957 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1958 kernels and break testing
1959 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1960 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1961 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1962 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1963 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1964 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1965 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1967 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1968 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1970 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1972 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1973 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1974 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1975 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1976 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1977 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1978 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1979 always implemented in the same library
1980 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1981 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1982 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1990 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1991 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1993 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1994 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1995 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1996 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1997 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1998 configured location.
2000 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2002 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2003 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2005 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2006 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2007 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2008 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2009 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2010 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2011 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2012 process actually does not use HTM).
2014 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2015 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2016 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2017 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2018 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2021 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2022 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2023 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2024 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2025 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2027 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2028 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2030 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2031 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2033 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2034 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2035 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2036 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2037 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2038 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2039 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2041 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2042 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2043 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2045 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2047 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2048 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2050 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2051 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2052 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2053 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2055 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2056 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2057 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2058 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2061 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2062 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2063 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2064 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2065 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2066 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2068 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2069 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2070 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2071 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2072 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2074 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2075 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2076 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2078 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2080 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2082 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2083 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2085 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2086 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2088 Security related changes:
2090 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2091 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2092 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2094 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2095 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2096 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2097 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2098 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2100 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2101 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2102 or command injection issues in applications.
2104 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2106 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2107 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2108 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2110 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2111 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2112 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2114 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2115 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2116 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2117 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2118 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2119 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2120 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2121 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2122 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2123 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2124 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2125 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2126 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2127 pointer argument is non-NULL
2128 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2129 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2130 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2131 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2132 multithreads call popen
2133 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2134 and pthread_create fails.
2135 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2136 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2138 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2139 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2140 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2142 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2144 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2146 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2147 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2149 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2150 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2151 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2152 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2153 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2154 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2155 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2157 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2158 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2159 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2161 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2162 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2163 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2164 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2166 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2168 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2169 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2170 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2171 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2173 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2175 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2176 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2177 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2179 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2180 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2181 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2182 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2183 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2184 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2186 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2187 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2188 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2189 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2190 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2191 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2192 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2193 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2194 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2195 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2196 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2197 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2198 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2199 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2201 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2202 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2203 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2204 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2205 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2207 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2208 nearest rounding mode
2209 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2210 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2211 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2212 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2213 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2214 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2215 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2216 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2217 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2219 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2220 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2222 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2223 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2224 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2225 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2227 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2229 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2231 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2233 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2234 answers will be rejected)
2235 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2242 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2243 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2244 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2245 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2246 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2247 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2248 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2249 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2250 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2251 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2252 archive or binary locales.
2254 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2255 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2256 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2257 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2258 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2259 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2260 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2261 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2262 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2263 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2264 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2267 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2268 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2269 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2270 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2271 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2272 field) to indicate such support is required.
2274 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2275 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2276 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2278 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2279 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2281 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2282 fMxaddfNx functions.
2284 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2285 fMxsubfNx functions.
2287 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2288 fMxmulfNx functions.
2290 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2291 fMxdivfNx functions.
2293 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2294 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2295 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2296 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2299 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2300 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2302 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2305 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2306 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2307 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2308 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2309 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2310 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2311 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2312 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2314 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2315 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2316 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2317 the fstatat64 function.
2319 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2320 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2321 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2322 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2323 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2324 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2325 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2326 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2327 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2329 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2330 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2331 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2332 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2333 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2334 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2335 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2336 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2337 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2338 results in a load failure now.
2340 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2341 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2344 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2345 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2347 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2348 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2350 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2352 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2353 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2355 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2357 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2359 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2361 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2362 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2363 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2365 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2366 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2367 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2368 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2369 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2370 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2372 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2373 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2374 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2375 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2376 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2377 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2380 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2381 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2382 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2383 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2384 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2385 further explanation.
2387 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2388 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2389 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2391 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2393 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2394 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2395 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2397 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2398 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2399 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2400 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2402 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2403 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2404 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2405 for this function instead.
2407 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2408 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2409 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2411 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2412 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2413 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2414 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2416 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2417 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2418 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2419 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2420 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2422 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2423 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2424 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2425 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2426 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2427 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2430 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2431 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2432 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2435 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2436 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2437 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2439 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2440 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2441 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2442 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2443 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2444 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2446 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2447 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2448 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2449 behavior in a future release.
2451 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2453 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2455 Security related changes:
2457 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2458 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2459 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2460 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2462 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2463 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2465 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2466 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2469 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2470 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2471 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2473 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2475 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2476 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2477 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2478 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2479 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2480 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2481 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2482 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2483 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2485 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2486 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2487 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2488 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2489 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2491 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2493 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2494 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2495 scope with -O1 and higher
2496 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2497 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2498 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2499 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2500 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2501 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2502 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2503 horrible machine code)
2504 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2506 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2507 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2509 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2510 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2512 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2513 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2514 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2515 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2516 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2518 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2519 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2520 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2521 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2522 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2524 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2525 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2526 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2528 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2529 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2530 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2531 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2532 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2533 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2534 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2535 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2536 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2537 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2538 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2539 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2540 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2542 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2544 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2545 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2546 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2547 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2548 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2549 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2550 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2551 for Spanish with CLDR
2552 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2553 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2554 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2555 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2556 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2557 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2559 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2561 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2562 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2563 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2564 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2566 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2567 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2568 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2569 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2570 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2571 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2572 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2573 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2574 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2575 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2576 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2577 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2578 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2579 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2580 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2581 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2582 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2584 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2585 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2587 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2588 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2589 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2590 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2591 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2592 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2594 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2596 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2597 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2598 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2599 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2600 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2601 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2602 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2603 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2604 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2605 and libc build with -Os)
2606 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2607 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2608 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2609 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2610 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2611 that changes /etc/passwd
2612 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2614 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2615 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2616 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2618 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2619 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2620 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2621 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2622 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2624 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2625 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2627 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2628 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2629 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2630 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2632 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2633 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2634 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2635 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2637 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2639 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2641 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2643 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2645 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2646 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2647 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2648 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2649 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2650 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2651 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2652 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2654 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2661 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2662 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2663 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2664 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2665 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2666 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2667 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2668 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2669 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2671 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2672 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2675 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2677 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2679 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2680 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2681 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2682 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2683 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2684 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2685 from a security and performance perspective.
2687 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2688 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2689 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2690 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2692 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2693 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2694 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2695 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2696 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2698 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2699 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2700 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2701 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2704 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2705 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2706 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2708 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2710 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2711 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2714 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2716 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2718 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2719 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2720 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2722 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2723 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2724 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2725 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2726 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2727 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2728 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2730 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2731 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2732 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2733 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2734 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2735 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2736 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2738 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2739 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2740 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2741 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2744 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2745 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2746 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2747 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2749 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2750 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2751 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2753 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2754 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2755 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2757 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2758 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2759 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2765 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2767 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2768 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2769 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2770 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2771 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2772 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2773 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2774 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2775 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2778 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2779 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2780 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2782 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2783 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2784 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2785 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2786 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2787 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2788 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2789 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2790 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2791 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2792 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2793 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2794 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2795 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2796 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2797 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2798 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2799 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2800 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2801 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2802 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2803 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2804 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2805 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2806 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2807 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2809 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2810 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2812 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2813 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2814 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2815 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2816 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2817 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2818 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2820 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2821 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2822 exp10l for these functions instead.
2824 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2825 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2826 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2828 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2829 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2832 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2833 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2834 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2835 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2837 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2838 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2840 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2841 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2843 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2846 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2848 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2849 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2850 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2853 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2854 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2855 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2856 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2857 use, but predates the bits convention.
2859 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2861 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2864 Security related changes:
2866 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2867 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2868 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2869 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2872 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2873 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2874 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2875 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2877 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2878 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2879 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2882 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2883 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2884 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2886 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2887 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2888 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2889 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2891 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2892 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2893 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2896 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2897 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2898 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2899 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2900 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2902 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2903 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2906 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2907 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2908 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2910 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2911 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2912 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2914 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2915 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2916 small, instead of NULL.
2918 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2920 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2921 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2922 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2924 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2925 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2926 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2928 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2929 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2930 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2931 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2932 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2933 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2934 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2935 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2936 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2938 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2939 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2940 width Latin characters
2941 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2942 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2943 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2945 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2946 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2948 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2949 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2950 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2951 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2952 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2954 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2955 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2956 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2957 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2958 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2959 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2960 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2961 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2962 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2963 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2965 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2966 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2967 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2968 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2969 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2970 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2971 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2972 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2974 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2975 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2977 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2978 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2980 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2981 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2982 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2983 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2984 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2985 __regcall calling convention
2986 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2987 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2988 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2989 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2990 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2991 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2992 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2993 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2994 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2995 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2996 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2997 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2998 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3000 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3002 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3004 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3005 consistency check failures
3006 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3007 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3008 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3009 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3011 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3013 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3014 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3015 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3016 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3017 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3018 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3019 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3020 on memory allocation failure
3021 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3022 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3024 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3026 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3027 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3028 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3029 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3030 instead of EAI_NODATA
3031 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3032 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3033 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3034 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3036 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3037 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3038 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3039 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3040 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3041 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3042 allocation in syscall loops)
3043 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3044 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3045 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3046 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3047 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3048 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3049 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3050 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3051 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3053 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3054 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3055 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3057 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3058 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3060 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3062 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3063 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3064 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3065 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3066 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3067 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3068 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3069 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3070 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3071 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3072 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3073 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3074 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3075 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3076 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3077 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3078 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3079 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3081 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3083 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3084 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3086 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3087 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3088 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3089 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3091 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3092 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3093 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3094 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3095 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3096 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3097 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3098 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3099 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3100 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3101 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3103 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3104 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3105 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3106 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3107 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3108 the svid compat wrapper
3109 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3110 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3111 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3112 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3113 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3114 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3116 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3117 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3119 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3120 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3121 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3122 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3123 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3124 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3126 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3127 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3128 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3129 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3131 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3132 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3134 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3135 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3136 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3137 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3138 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3139 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3140 inside the ASCII printable range
3141 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3143 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3144 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3145 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3147 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3148 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3150 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3151 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3152 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3154 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3155 networking interface
3156 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3157 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3158 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3159 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3160 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3161 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3162 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3163 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3164 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3166 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3167 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3168 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3169 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3170 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3171 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3172 same as for Croatian
3173 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3174 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3175 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3177 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3179 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3180 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3181 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3182 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3183 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3185 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3186 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3187 modified in case of success
3188 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3189 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3191 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3193 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3194 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3195 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3196 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3197 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3198 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3199 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3200 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3202 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3203 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3204 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3205 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3206 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3207 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3208 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3209 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3210 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3212 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3213 elision and tunables
3214 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3216 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3217 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3218 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3220 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3221 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3223 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3224 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3225 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3226 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3227 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3228 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3229 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3230 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3231 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3238 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3239 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3240 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3241 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3242 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3243 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3244 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3246 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3247 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3248 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3249 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3250 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3251 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3252 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3254 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3255 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3258 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3260 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3261 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3262 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3264 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3265 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3266 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3267 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3268 object are still limited to six search domains.
3270 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3271 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3272 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3274 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3275 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3277 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3278 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3279 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3280 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3282 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3283 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3284 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3285 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3287 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3288 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3289 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3290 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3292 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3293 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3294 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3296 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3297 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3298 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3299 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3301 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3302 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3303 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3304 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3305 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3307 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3308 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3309 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3310 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3311 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3312 interfaces should be used instead.
3314 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3316 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3317 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3318 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3319 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3320 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3321 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3322 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3323 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3325 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3328 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3329 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3330 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3331 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3333 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3334 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3337 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3338 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3339 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3340 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3341 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3343 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3344 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3345 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3346 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3348 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3349 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3350 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3351 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3353 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3354 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3356 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3357 exported by accident.
3359 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3360 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3361 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3363 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3364 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3365 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3366 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3368 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3370 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3372 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3375 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3376 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3378 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3379 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3381 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3382 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3383 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3384 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3385 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3386 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3387 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3388 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3390 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3391 synced with the kernel:
3393 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3394 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3396 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3397 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3398 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3400 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3401 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3403 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3405 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3406 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3409 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3411 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3412 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3414 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3415 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3416 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3417 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3418 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3420 Security related changes:
3422 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3423 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3425 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3426 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3428 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3429 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3432 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3433 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3435 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3437 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3438 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3439 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3441 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3443 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3444 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3445 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3447 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3448 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3449 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3450 x86 and other generic code
3451 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3452 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3454 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3455 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3456 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3457 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3458 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3459 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3460 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3462 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3463 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3464 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3465 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3467 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3468 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3470 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3472 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3473 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3474 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3476 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3477 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3478 failures consistently
3479 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3480 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3481 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3482 frame-pointer on i386
3483 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3485 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3486 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3487 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3488 generic c code is used
3489 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3490 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3492 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3494 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3495 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3497 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3498 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3499 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3500 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3501 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3502 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3503 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3504 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3505 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3506 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3508 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3510 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3511 new posix_spawn implementation
3512 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3513 leads to lower CPU frequency
3514 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3515 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3516 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3517 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3518 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3519 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3520 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3521 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3522 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3523 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3524 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3525 not support gethostbyname4_r
3526 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3528 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3530 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3531 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3532 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3533 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3534 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3535 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3536 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3538 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3539 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3540 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3541 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3542 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3543 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3544 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3545 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3546 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3547 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3548 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3549 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3551 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3552 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3553 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3554 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3555 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3556 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3557 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3558 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3560 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3561 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3562 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3563 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3564 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3565 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3566 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3567 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3568 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3569 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3570 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3571 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3572 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3573 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3574 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3575 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3576 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3577 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3578 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3579 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3580 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3582 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3583 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3584 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3585 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3586 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3588 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3589 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3591 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3592 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3594 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3595 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3597 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3598 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3599 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3600 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3602 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3603 leading to relocation crash
3604 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3605 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3606 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3607 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3608 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3609 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3610 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3611 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3612 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3614 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3616 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3617 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3618 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3619 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3620 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3621 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3622 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3623 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3625 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3627 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3629 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3630 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3631 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3632 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3633 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3634 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3635 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3636 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3637 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3638 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3639 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3640 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3641 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3642 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3643 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3644 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3645 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3646 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3647 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3648 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3649 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3650 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3651 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3652 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3653 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3654 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3655 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3657 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3658 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3659 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3660 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3661 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3666 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3667 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3668 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3671 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3672 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3673 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3676 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3677 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3678 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3681 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3682 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3683 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3684 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3685 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3686 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3687 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3690 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3691 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3694 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3695 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3696 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3698 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3699 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3700 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3701 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3704 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3705 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3706 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3708 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3709 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3710 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3711 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3712 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3713 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3714 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3715 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3716 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3717 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3718 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3721 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3723 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3725 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3726 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3727 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3729 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3730 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3732 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3735 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3737 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3739 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3740 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3742 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3744 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3745 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3747 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3748 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3750 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3751 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3752 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3754 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3755 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3756 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3757 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3758 effects of the memory clear).
3760 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3761 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3762 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3763 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3765 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3766 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3767 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3768 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3769 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3770 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3772 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3775 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3776 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3777 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3778 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3779 as large as several megabytes.
3781 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3782 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3785 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3786 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3787 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3788 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3789 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3790 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3791 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3793 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3794 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3795 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3796 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3798 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3799 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3800 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3803 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3804 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3805 They were already unimplemented.
3807 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3808 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3809 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3810 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3812 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3813 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3814 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3815 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3816 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3818 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3819 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3820 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3821 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3822 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3824 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3825 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3826 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3827 did not reflect that.
3829 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3830 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3831 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3832 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3833 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3834 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3835 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3838 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3839 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3840 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3841 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3843 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3844 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3845 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3846 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3848 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3849 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3852 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3853 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3856 Security related changes:
3858 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3859 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3860 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3861 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3862 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3864 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3865 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3866 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3867 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3870 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3872 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3873 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3875 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3876 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3877 before it started waiting
3878 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3879 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3880 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3881 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3883 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3884 library linked with pthread
3885 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3886 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3887 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3888 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3889 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3890 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3891 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3893 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3895 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3896 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3897 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3898 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3899 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3900 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3901 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3902 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3903 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3905 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3906 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3907 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3908 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3909 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3910 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3911 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3912 causes a segmentation fault
3913 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3915 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3916 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3918 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3920 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3921 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3922 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3924 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3925 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3927 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3928 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3929 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3930 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3931 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3932 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3933 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3934 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3936 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3937 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3938 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3940 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3942 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3944 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3945 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3946 cause transition penalty
3947 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3948 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3949 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3950 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3951 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3953 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3955 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3956 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3957 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3958 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3959 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3960 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3962 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3964 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3965 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3966 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3967 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3968 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3969 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3970 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3971 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3972 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3973 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3974 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3975 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3976 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3977 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3979 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3980 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3981 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3982 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3983 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3984 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3985 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3986 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3987 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3988 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3989 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3990 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3991 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3992 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3993 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3994 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3995 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3996 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3998 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3999 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4000 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4001 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4002 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4004 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4005 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4006 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4007 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4008 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4009 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4010 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4012 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4013 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4014 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4015 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4016 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4020 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4021 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4022 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4023 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4024 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4027 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4028 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4029 been included in previous releases.
4031 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4032 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4034 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4035 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4036 instead of “union wait”.
4038 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4039 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4040 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4041 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4042 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4043 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4044 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4046 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4049 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4050 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4053 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4054 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4055 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4056 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4057 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4060 Security related changes:
4062 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4063 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4064 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4066 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4067 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4068 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4069 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4071 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4072 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4073 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4075 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4076 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4077 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4079 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4080 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4081 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4082 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4084 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4086 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4087 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4089 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4090 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4091 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4092 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4093 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4094 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4095 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4096 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4098 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4099 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4100 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4101 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4102 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4103 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4105 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4107 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4108 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4109 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4110 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4111 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4112 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4113 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4114 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4115 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4116 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4117 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4119 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4120 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4121 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4122 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4123 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4124 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4126 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4127 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4129 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4130 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4131 Romanian locale data
4132 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4134 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4135 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4137 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4138 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4139 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4140 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4142 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4144 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4145 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4146 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4147 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4148 when using RTLD_NEXT
4149 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4150 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4151 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4152 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4153 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4154 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4155 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4156 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4157 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4159 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4160 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4161 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4162 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4164 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4166 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4168 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4169 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4170 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4171 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4172 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4173 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4175 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4176 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4178 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4179 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4181 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4183 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4185 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4186 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4187 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4188 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4189 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4190 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4191 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4192 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4193 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4194 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4195 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4196 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4197 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4198 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4200 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4202 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4203 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4204 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4205 response to getaddrinfo
4206 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4207 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4208 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4209 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4210 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4211 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4213 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4214 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4215 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4217 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4218 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4219 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4220 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4222 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4223 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4224 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4226 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4227 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4228 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4229 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4230 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4231 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4232 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4233 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4235 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4236 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4237 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4239 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4240 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4241 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4242 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4243 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4244 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4245 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4246 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4247 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4248 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4249 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4250 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4251 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4253 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4254 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4255 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4256 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4258 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4259 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4261 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4262 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4263 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4264 AS not supporting AVX512
4265 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4267 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4268 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4270 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4271 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4272 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4273 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4274 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4276 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4277 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4279 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4280 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4281 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4282 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4283 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4284 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4285 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4286 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4287 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4289 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4290 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4291 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4292 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4293 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4294 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4295 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4296 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4297 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4298 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4299 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4300 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4301 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4303 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4304 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4305 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4306 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4307 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4309 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4310 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4312 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4313 "invalid" exceptions
4314 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4315 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4316 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4317 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4318 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4319 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4320 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4321 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4322 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4326 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4327 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4328 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4329 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4330 89, 16061, and 18568.
4332 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4333 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4334 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4335 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4336 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4337 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4338 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4340 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4341 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4342 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4344 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4345 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4346 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4347 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4348 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4349 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4350 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4352 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4353 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4354 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4355 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4356 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4357 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4358 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4361 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4362 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4363 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4364 independent of the GNU C Library.
4366 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4367 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4369 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4370 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4371 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4372 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4373 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4376 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4377 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4379 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4380 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4381 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4382 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4383 defining their own copy.
4385 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4386 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4387 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4389 Security related changes:
4391 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4392 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4394 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4395 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4396 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4397 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4400 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4401 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4403 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4404 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4406 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4407 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4408 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4410 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4411 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4412 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4413 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4414 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4415 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4416 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4417 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4418 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4419 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4420 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4421 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4422 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4424 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4426 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4427 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4428 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4429 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4430 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4431 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4433 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4434 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4435 overflow/underflow errors
4436 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4438 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4439 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4440 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4441 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4442 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4443 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4445 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4446 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4447 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4448 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4449 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4450 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4451 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4452 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4453 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4455 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4457 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4458 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4459 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4461 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4462 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4463 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4464 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4465 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4467 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4468 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4470 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4471 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4472 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4473 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4474 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4475 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4476 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4477 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4479 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4480 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4481 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4482 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4483 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4485 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4486 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4488 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4489 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4490 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4491 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4492 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4494 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4495 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4496 (related to lock elision)
4497 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4498 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4499 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4500 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4502 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4503 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4504 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4505 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4506 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4507 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4508 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4509 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4510 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4511 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4512 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4513 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4514 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4515 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4516 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4517 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4518 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4519 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4520 contains a vector instruction exception.
4521 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4522 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4524 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4525 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4526 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4527 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4528 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4530 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4532 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4533 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4535 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4536 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4537 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4538 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4539 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4541 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4542 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4543 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4544 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4545 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4546 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4547 statically too large
4548 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4549 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4550 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4551 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4552 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4553 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4554 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4555 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4556 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4558 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4559 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4560 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4561 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4562 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4563 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4564 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4566 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4567 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4568 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4569 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4571 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4572 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4573 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4574 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4575 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4576 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4578 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4579 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4580 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4581 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4582 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4583 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4585 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4586 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4587 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4588 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4589 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4590 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4591 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4592 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4594 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4595 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4596 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4597 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4598 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4599 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4600 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4601 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4602 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4604 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4606 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4607 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4608 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4610 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4611 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4612 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4613 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4614 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4615 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4616 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4617 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4618 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4619 pthread_setaffinity_np
4620 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4621 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4622 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4623 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4624 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4626 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4627 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4628 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4629 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4630 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4631 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4632 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4634 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4635 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4636 for C99-based standards
4637 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4638 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4640 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4641 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4642 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4644 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4645 "inexact" exceptions
4646 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4648 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4649 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4650 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4651 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4653 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4654 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4655 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4656 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4657 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4658 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4659 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4660 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4661 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4662 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4664 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4665 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4666 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4667 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4669 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4670 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4671 error on 32-bit architectures
4672 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4673 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4674 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4675 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4676 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4677 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4678 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4679 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4680 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4682 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4684 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4685 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4686 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4687 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4689 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4693 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4695 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4696 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4697 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4698 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4699 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4700 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4701 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4702 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4703 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4704 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4705 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4706 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4707 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4708 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4709 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4710 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4711 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4712 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4713 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4714 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4716 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4717 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4719 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4720 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4721 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4722 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4723 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4724 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4726 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4727 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4728 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4729 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4730 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4732 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4733 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4734 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4736 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4737 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4738 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4741 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4742 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4743 condition in some applications.
4745 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4746 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4748 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4749 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4750 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4751 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4752 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4754 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4755 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4756 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4757 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4759 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4760 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4761 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4763 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4764 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4766 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4767 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4768 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4770 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4771 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4772 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4776 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4778 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4779 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4780 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4781 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4782 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4783 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4784 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4785 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4786 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4787 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4790 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4791 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4792 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4793 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4796 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4797 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4798 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4799 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4800 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4801 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4803 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4805 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4806 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4807 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4809 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4810 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4811 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4812 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4813 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4814 effects being visible outside transactions.
4816 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4817 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4819 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4821 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4822 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4823 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4824 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4825 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4827 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4828 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4830 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4831 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4834 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4835 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4836 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4838 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4839 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4841 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4843 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4844 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4845 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4846 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4848 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4849 with newer versions of bison.
4851 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4852 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4853 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4854 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4855 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4856 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4857 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4858 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4859 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4860 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4861 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4862 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4863 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4865 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4866 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4867 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4868 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4869 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4873 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4875 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4876 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4877 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4878 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4879 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4880 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4881 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4882 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4883 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4884 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4885 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4886 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4887 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4888 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4889 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4891 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4892 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4893 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4894 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4895 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4896 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4897 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4898 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4899 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4900 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4902 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4903 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4904 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4905 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4906 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4908 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4910 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4911 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4913 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4914 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4915 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4916 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4917 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4918 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4920 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4923 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4924 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4925 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4926 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4927 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4928 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4929 test macros defined.
4931 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4933 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4934 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4935 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4936 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4937 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4938 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4941 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4942 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4943 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4944 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4947 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4948 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4949 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4951 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4952 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4953 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4954 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4956 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4957 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4958 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4959 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4960 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4961 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4962 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4965 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4966 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4967 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4968 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4969 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4970 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4971 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4972 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4973 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4975 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4976 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4977 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4978 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4979 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4980 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4982 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4983 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4984 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4985 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4989 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4991 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4992 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4993 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4994 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4995 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4996 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4997 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4998 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4999 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5000 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5001 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5002 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5003 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5004 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5005 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5006 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5007 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5008 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5010 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5011 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5013 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5014 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5015 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5016 extension which uses __block.
5018 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5019 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5020 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5021 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5022 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5024 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5025 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5026 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5027 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5030 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5031 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5032 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5033 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5034 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5036 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5037 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5038 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5040 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5041 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5042 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5045 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5046 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5048 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5049 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5051 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5053 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5056 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5058 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5060 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5061 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5062 for which the C library was built.
5064 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5065 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5066 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5067 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5068 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5069 in the following circumstances:
5071 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5073 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5074 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5076 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5077 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5079 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5080 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5082 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5084 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5085 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5087 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5089 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5091 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5093 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5094 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5095 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5096 disable some of those declarations.
5098 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5099 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5100 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5102 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5103 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5105 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5106 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5107 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5108 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5109 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5110 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5111 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5112 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5113 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5114 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5115 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5116 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5117 require recompilation.
5121 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5123 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5124 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5125 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5126 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5127 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5128 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5129 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5130 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5131 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5132 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5133 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5134 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5135 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5138 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5139 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5140 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5141 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5142 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5143 understands and accepts the risks.
5145 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5148 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5149 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5151 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5152 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5153 destructor calls to glibc.
5155 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5158 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5159 non-x86 architectures.
5161 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5163 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5165 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5168 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5170 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5173 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5174 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5176 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5178 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5179 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5181 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5182 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5184 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5185 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5186 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5188 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5189 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5190 attributes of a process.
5192 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5193 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5194 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5195 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5198 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5199 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5201 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5205 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5207 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5208 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5209 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5210 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5211 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5212 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5213 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5214 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5215 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5216 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5217 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5218 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5219 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5220 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5221 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5223 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5225 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5226 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5228 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5229 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5231 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5233 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5234 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5236 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5238 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5239 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5240 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5242 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5243 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5245 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5246 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5248 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5249 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5251 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5252 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5254 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5255 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5256 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5257 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5259 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5260 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5262 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5263 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5266 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5267 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5268 information in --help and --version output.
5270 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5271 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5272 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5274 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5275 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5276 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5277 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5278 when the mode is enabled.
5280 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5281 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5282 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5283 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5284 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5285 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5286 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5288 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5293 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5295 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5296 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5297 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5298 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5299 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5300 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5301 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5302 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5303 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5304 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5305 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5306 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5307 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5308 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5309 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5310 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5311 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5312 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5313 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5314 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5315 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5316 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5319 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5320 configuring glibc with:
5321 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5322 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5323 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5327 + define static_assert
5329 + do not declare gets
5331 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5333 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5334 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5335 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5338 + timespec_get added
5340 + uchar.h support added
5342 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5344 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5346 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5348 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5350 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5351 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5353 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5354 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5356 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5357 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5358 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5359 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5360 existing applications.
5362 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5363 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5366 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5367 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5368 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5370 * New locales: mag_IN
5372 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5373 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5374 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5375 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5376 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5378 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5380 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5383 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5385 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5386 without a previously built glibc.
5388 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5389 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5391 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5392 now supported for ARM processors.
5394 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5395 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5396 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5398 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5400 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5401 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5402 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5403 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5405 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5406 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5407 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5408 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5410 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5411 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5412 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5413 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5414 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5416 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5417 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5418 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5419 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5423 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5425 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5426 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5427 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5428 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5429 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5430 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5431 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5433 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5434 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5436 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5437 and support for initgroups lookups.
5438 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5440 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5441 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5443 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5444 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5446 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5447 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5448 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5450 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5451 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5453 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5454 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5455 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5457 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5458 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5460 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5461 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5463 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5464 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5466 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5467 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5469 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5470 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5472 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5473 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5475 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5477 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5480 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5481 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5483 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5487 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5489 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5490 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5491 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5492 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5493 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5494 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5495 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5496 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5497 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5498 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5500 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5501 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5502 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5503 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5505 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5506 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5507 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5510 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5511 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5513 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5514 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5516 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5518 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5519 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5521 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5522 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5523 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5524 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5528 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5530 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5531 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5532 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5533 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5536 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5538 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5540 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5541 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5542 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5546 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5548 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5549 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5550 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5551 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5552 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5553 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5554 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5555 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5557 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5559 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5561 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5563 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5564 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5565 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5567 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5568 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5569 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5570 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5571 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5573 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5577 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5579 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5580 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5581 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5582 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5583 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5584 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5586 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5588 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5590 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5591 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5593 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5594 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5596 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5598 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5599 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5600 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5601 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5603 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5604 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5606 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5608 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5610 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5611 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5613 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5614 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5616 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5617 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5619 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5620 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5621 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5622 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5623 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5624 necessity is every process again.
5625 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5627 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5628 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5630 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5631 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5633 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5634 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5635 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5637 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5641 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5643 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5644 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5645 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5646 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5647 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5649 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5650 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5652 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5653 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5655 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5656 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5658 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5661 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5662 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5664 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5665 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5667 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5668 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5670 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5671 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5673 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5674 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5675 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5677 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5679 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5680 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5682 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5683 and extend existing format specifiers.
5684 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5686 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5687 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5689 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5690 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5691 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5692 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5693 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5694 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5698 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5700 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5701 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5702 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5703 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5704 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5706 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5707 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5709 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5710 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5712 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5715 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5716 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5717 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5719 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5720 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5722 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5724 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5725 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5727 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5728 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5729 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5730 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5732 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5733 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5735 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5737 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5739 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5743 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5745 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5746 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5747 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5748 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5749 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5750 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5751 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5753 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5755 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5757 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5758 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5760 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5762 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5763 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5765 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5766 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5768 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5769 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5770 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5772 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5773 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5775 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5776 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5778 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5779 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5781 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
5782 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5786 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5788 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5789 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5790 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5791 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5792 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5794 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5795 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5797 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5799 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5800 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5801 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5803 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5804 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5806 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5807 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5809 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5811 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5812 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5814 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5815 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5817 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5818 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5820 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5822 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5823 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5825 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5826 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5829 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5830 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5834 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5836 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5837 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5838 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5839 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5840 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5841 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5842 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5845 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5847 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5849 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5853 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5855 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5856 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5857 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5858 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5859 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5860 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5861 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5862 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5863 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5865 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5866 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5867 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5869 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5870 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5872 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5874 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5876 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5877 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5878 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5879 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5880 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5882 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5883 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5884 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5885 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5887 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5890 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5892 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5895 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5897 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5898 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5902 * More overflow detection functions.
5904 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5905 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5907 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5908 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5909 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5910 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5911 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5912 by Masahide Washizawa.
5914 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5915 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5917 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5918 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5919 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5920 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5922 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5923 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5925 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5927 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5928 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5929 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5931 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5932 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5934 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5935 for compatibility with some other systems.
5937 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5941 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5943 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5944 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5945 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5946 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5947 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5948 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5950 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5952 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5954 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5958 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5960 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5961 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5962 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5963 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5965 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5969 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5970 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5972 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5973 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5974 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5976 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5977 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5979 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5981 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5983 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5984 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5987 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5988 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5989 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5991 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5992 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5994 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5995 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5996 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5997 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5999 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6000 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6001 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6002 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6004 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6005 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6006 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6007 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6008 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6012 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6013 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6015 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6016 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6018 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6019 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6021 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6022 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6024 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6027 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6030 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6035 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6036 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6037 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6038 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6039 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6040 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6041 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6042 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6043 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6045 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6046 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6047 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6049 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6051 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6052 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6054 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6055 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6057 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6059 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6060 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6062 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6063 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6064 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6065 of weak definition in ld.so.
6067 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6068 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6070 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6071 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6075 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6078 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6079 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6081 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6082 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6084 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6085 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6087 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6088 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6089 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6091 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6092 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6094 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6095 implementation of regex.
6097 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6100 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6101 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6103 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6104 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6105 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6107 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6108 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6110 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6111 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6112 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6114 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6115 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6117 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6118 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6121 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6125 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6126 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6128 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6129 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6133 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6134 128-bit long double format.
6136 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6137 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6139 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6141 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6143 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6146 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6147 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6149 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6153 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6154 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6156 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6157 support Unicode 3.1.
6159 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6160 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6162 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6164 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6165 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6166 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6168 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6169 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6171 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6172 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6174 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6178 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6179 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6180 in float, double, and long double format.
6182 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6183 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6184 128-bit long double format.
6186 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6187 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6188 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6189 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6191 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6192 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6193 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6195 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6196 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6198 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6199 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6201 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6202 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6203 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6205 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6206 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6208 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6209 of functions for Linux/x86.
6211 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6215 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6216 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6217 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6218 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6219 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6220 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6223 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6224 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6226 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6227 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6228 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6229 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6231 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6236 only lists the names of the supported locales
6240 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6241 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6245 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6246 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6247 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6248 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6249 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6251 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6253 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6255 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6257 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6258 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6259 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6261 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6262 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6264 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6265 changed from the default "C" locale.
6267 * The usual bug fixes.
6271 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6272 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6275 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6277 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6279 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6280 obviously requires a database library being available.
6282 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6284 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6286 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6287 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6289 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6291 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6292 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6295 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6296 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6297 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6299 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6300 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6302 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6303 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6304 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6306 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6307 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6308 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6309 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6311 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6312 structures for the wide character tables.
6314 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6316 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6318 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6320 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6323 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6325 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6327 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6329 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6331 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6333 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6334 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6335 implemented for Linux.
6337 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6338 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6339 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6342 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6345 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6359 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6361 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6363 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6365 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6367 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6369 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6371 * Update timezone data files.
6373 * lots of charmaps corrections
6375 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6380 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6381 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6382 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6383 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6384 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6385 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6387 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6388 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6390 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6393 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6394 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6396 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6398 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6401 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6403 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6404 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6406 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6409 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6410 functions from ISO C 9X.
6412 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6413 real valued functions.
6415 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6417 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6419 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6421 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6423 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6425 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6427 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6429 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6430 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6432 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6433 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6437 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6439 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6441 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6443 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6445 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6447 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6449 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6450 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6453 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6454 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6456 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6458 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6460 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6461 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6463 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6465 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6468 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6469 latest draft standards.
6471 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6473 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6474 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6475 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6476 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6477 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6478 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6479 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6480 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6481 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6482 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6483 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6484 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6485 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6486 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6487 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6488 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6489 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6490 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6491 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6492 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6494 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6495 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6496 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6497 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6498 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6505 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6506 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6507 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6508 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6509 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6511 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6512 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6513 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6514 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6515 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6516 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6520 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6521 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6527 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6528 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6529 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6530 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6532 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6533 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6534 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6544 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6545 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6547 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6548 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6553 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6554 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6557 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6558 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6562 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6563 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6565 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6566 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6567 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6569 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6570 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6574 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6575 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6579 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6580 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6581 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6582 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6583 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6585 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6586 ferror_locked REMOVED
6587 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6588 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6589 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6590 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6591 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6592 fflush_locked REMOVED
6596 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6597 fileno_locked REMOVED
6609 fputc_locked REMOVED
6610 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6611 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6616 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6620 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6622 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6623 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6627 getchar_locked REMOVED
6629 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6630 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6632 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6633 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6634 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6635 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6636 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6637 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6638 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6639 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6640 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6641 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6642 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6643 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6644 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6645 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6647 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6648 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6649 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6650 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6651 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6652 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6653 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6654 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6655 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6656 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6657 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6658 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6659 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6660 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6661 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6662 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6663 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6664 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6665 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6666 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6667 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6668 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6669 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6670 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6671 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6672 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6677 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6678 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6679 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6680 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6681 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6683 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6684 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6687 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6691 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6692 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6693 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6694 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6695 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6696 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6697 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6698 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6702 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6704 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6705 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6708 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6709 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6710 profil_counter REMOVED
6711 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6712 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6713 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6714 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6716 putchar_locked REMOVED
6717 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6719 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6720 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6724 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6725 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6726 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6727 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6729 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6730 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6732 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6733 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6734 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6736 sendfile NEW: kernel
6737 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6738 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6739 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6741 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6742 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6743 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6744 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6745 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6746 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6747 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6748 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6749 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6753 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6754 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6755 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6756 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6757 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6758 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6759 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6760 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6761 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6762 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6763 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6764 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6765 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6769 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6770 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6772 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6773 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6774 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6775 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6776 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6777 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6779 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6780 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6781 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6782 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6783 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6784 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6785 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6787 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6788 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6789 write_profiling REMOVED
6790 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6791 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6792 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6793 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6794 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6795 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6796 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6797 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6798 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6799 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6800 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6801 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6802 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6803 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6804 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6805 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6816 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6818 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6820 * rewrite of cbrt function
6822 * update of timezone data
6836 * add atoll function
6838 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6840 * fix math functions
6844 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6846 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6848 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6849 the ELF dynamic loader.
6851 * support for parallel builds is improved
6855 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6856 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6859 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6860 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6861 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6862 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6863 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6864 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6865 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6866 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6867 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6868 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6869 files in the ELF format.
6871 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6872 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6874 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6875 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6876 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6877 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6878 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6879 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6880 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6881 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6882 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6883 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6884 about dynamically linked binaries.
6886 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6887 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6888 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6889 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6890 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6892 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6893 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6894 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6895 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6896 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6898 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6900 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6901 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6902 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6903 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6904 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6905 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6906 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6907 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6908 NSS services available.
6910 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6911 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6912 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6914 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6915 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6916 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6918 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6919 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6920 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6921 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6923 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6924 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6925 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6927 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6928 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6929 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6931 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6932 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6934 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6935 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6936 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6937 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6939 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6940 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6941 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6943 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6944 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6945 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6946 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6947 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6948 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6949 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6950 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6952 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6953 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6954 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6955 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6956 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6957 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6958 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6960 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6961 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6962 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6963 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6964 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6965 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6967 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6968 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6970 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6971 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6972 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6974 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6976 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6977 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6978 their use is discouraged.
6980 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6981 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6983 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6984 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6986 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6987 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6989 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6992 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6993 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6994 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6995 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6996 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6998 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6999 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7000 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7001 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7003 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7004 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7006 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7007 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7008 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7009 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7012 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7013 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7015 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7016 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7018 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7019 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7020 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7021 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7023 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7025 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7026 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7027 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7029 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7030 for arithmetic and string handling.
7032 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7033 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7034 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7035 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7037 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7038 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7039 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7040 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7041 programs already written to use it.)
7043 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7046 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7049 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7050 a given effective group ID.
7052 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7053 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7054 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7055 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7057 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7058 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7059 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7060 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7061 doing the same thing.
7063 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7064 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7066 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7067 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7069 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7071 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7072 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7073 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7074 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7075 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7077 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7078 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7080 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7081 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7082 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7085 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7087 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7088 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7091 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7092 and writing the utmp file.
7094 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7097 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7098 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7099 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7101 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7102 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7104 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7105 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7108 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7109 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7110 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7111 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7113 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7114 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7115 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7117 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7118 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7119 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7122 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7125 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7128 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7130 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7131 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7132 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7136 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7138 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7139 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7141 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7142 want to put themselves in the background.
7144 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7145 run without an operating system.
7147 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7148 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7150 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7151 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7153 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7155 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7156 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7159 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7162 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7163 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7167 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7168 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7169 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7171 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7172 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7174 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7175 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7177 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7179 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7181 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7184 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7185 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7186 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7188 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7190 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7191 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7192 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7194 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7195 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7196 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7197 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7198 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7201 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7202 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7203 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7204 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7205 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7208 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7209 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7213 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7214 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7216 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7217 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7218 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7220 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7221 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7222 address of the last character written.
7224 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7225 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7227 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7228 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7230 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7231 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7232 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7233 you dereference this pointer.
7235 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7236 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7238 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7239 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7240 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7241 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7243 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7244 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7245 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7246 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7250 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7251 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7252 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7253 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7254 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7256 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7258 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7260 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7261 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7263 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7264 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7266 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7267 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7269 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7270 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7271 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7272 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7273 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7275 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7276 to the error code in `errno'.
7278 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7279 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7280 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7283 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7284 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7285 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7287 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7288 uniquely-named temporary file.
7292 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7293 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7294 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7296 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7299 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7300 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7302 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7306 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7307 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7308 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7309 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7311 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7312 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7313 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7315 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7316 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7318 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7319 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7320 made itself into a shared library.
7322 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7323 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7325 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7326 with limited length.
7328 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7330 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7332 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7334 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7335 function for traversing a directory tree.
7337 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7338 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7339 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7340 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7342 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7343 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7345 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7347 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7348 things to your strings.
7350 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7352 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7353 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7354 supporting those systems.
7356 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7357 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7358 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7359 configuration files.
7361 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7362 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7364 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7365 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7368 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7369 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7370 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7371 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7372 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7373 required storage is not available.
7375 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7376 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7378 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7379 latest files released from Berkeley.
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