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12 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
13 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
14 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
15 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
16 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
17 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
18 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
19 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
20 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
22 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
23 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
26 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
28 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
30 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
31 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
32 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
33 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
34 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
35 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
36 from a security and performance perspective.
38 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
39 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
40 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
41 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
43 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
44 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
45 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
46 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
47 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
49 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
50 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
51 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
52 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
55 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
56 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
57 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
59 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
61 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
62 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
65 * The copy_file_range function was added.
67 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
69 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
70 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
71 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
73 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
74 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
75 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
76 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
77 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
78 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
79 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
81 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
82 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
83 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
84 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
85 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
86 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
87 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
89 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
90 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
91 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
92 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
95 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
96 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
97 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
98 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
100 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
101 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
102 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
104 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
105 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
106 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
108 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
109 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
110 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
116 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
118 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
119 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
120 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
121 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
122 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
123 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
124 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
125 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
126 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
129 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
130 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
131 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
133 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
134 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
135 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
136 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
137 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
138 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
139 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
140 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
141 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
142 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
143 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
144 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
145 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
146 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
147 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
148 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
149 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
150 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
151 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
152 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
153 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
154 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
155 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
156 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
157 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
158 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
160 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
161 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
163 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
164 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
165 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
166 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
167 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
168 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
169 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
171 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
172 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
173 exp10l for these functions instead.
175 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
176 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
177 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
179 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
180 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
183 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
184 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
185 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
186 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
188 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
189 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
191 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
192 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
194 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
197 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
199 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
200 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
201 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
204 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
205 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
206 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
207 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
208 use, but predates the bits convention.
210 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
212 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
215 Security related changes:
217 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
218 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
219 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
220 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
223 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
224 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
225 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
226 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
228 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
229 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
230 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
233 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
234 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
235 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
237 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
238 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
239 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
240 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
242 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
243 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
244 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
247 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
248 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
249 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
250 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
251 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
253 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
254 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
257 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
258 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
259 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
261 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
262 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
263 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
265 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
267 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
268 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
269 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
271 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
272 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
273 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
275 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
276 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
277 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
278 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
279 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
280 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
281 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
282 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
283 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
285 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
286 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
287 width Latin characters
288 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
289 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
290 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
292 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
293 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
295 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
296 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
297 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
298 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
299 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
301 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
302 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
303 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
304 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
305 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
306 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
307 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
308 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
309 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
310 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
312 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
313 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
314 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
315 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
316 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
317 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
318 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
319 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
321 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
322 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
324 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
325 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
327 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
328 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
329 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
330 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
331 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
332 __regcall calling convention
333 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
334 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
335 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
336 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
337 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
338 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
339 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
340 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
341 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
342 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
343 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
344 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
345 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
347 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
349 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
351 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
352 consistency check failures
353 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
354 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
355 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
356 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
358 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
360 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
361 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
362 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
363 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
364 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
365 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
366 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
367 on memory allocation failure
368 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
369 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
371 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
373 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
374 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
375 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
376 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
377 instead of EAI_NODATA
378 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
379 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
380 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
381 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
383 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
384 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
385 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
386 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
387 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
388 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
389 allocation in syscall loops)
390 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
391 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
392 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
393 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
394 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
395 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
396 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
397 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
398 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
400 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
401 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
402 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
404 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
405 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
407 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
409 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
410 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
411 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
412 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
413 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
414 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
415 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
416 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
417 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
418 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
419 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
420 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
421 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
422 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
423 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
424 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
425 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
426 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
428 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
430 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
431 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
433 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
434 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
435 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
436 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
438 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
439 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
440 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
441 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
442 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
443 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
444 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
445 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
446 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
447 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
448 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
450 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
451 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
452 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
453 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
454 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
455 the svid compat wrapper
456 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
457 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
458 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
459 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
460 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
461 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
463 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
464 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
466 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
467 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
468 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
469 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
470 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
471 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
473 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
474 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
475 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
476 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
478 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
479 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
481 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
482 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
483 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
484 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
485 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
486 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
487 inside the ASCII printable range
488 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
490 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
491 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
492 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
494 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
495 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
497 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
498 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
499 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
501 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
503 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
504 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
505 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
506 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
507 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
508 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
509 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
510 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
511 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
513 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
514 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
515 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
516 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
517 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
518 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
520 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
521 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
522 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
524 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
526 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
527 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
528 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
529 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
530 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
532 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
533 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
534 modified in case of success
535 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
536 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
538 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
540 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
541 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
542 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
543 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
544 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
545 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
546 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
547 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
549 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
550 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
551 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
552 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
553 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
554 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
555 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
556 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
557 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
559 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
561 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
563 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
564 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
565 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
567 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
568 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
570 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
571 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
572 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
573 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
574 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
575 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
576 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
577 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
578 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
585 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
586 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
587 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
588 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
589 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
590 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
591 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
593 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
594 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
595 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
596 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
597 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
598 are rendered with pango, see for example:
599 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
601 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
602 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
605 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
607 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
608 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
609 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
611 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
612 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
613 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
614 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
615 object are still limited to six search domains.
617 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
618 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
619 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
621 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
622 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
624 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
625 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
626 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
627 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
629 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
630 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
631 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
632 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
634 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
635 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
636 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
637 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
639 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
640 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
641 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
643 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
644 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
645 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
646 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
648 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
649 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
650 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
651 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
652 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
654 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
655 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
656 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
657 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
658 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
659 interfaces should be used instead.
661 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
663 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
664 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
665 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
666 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
667 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
668 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
669 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
670 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
672 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
675 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
676 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
677 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
678 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
680 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
681 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
684 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
685 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
686 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
687 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
688 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
690 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
691 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
692 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
693 name service modules, to be built and installed.
695 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
696 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
697 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
698 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
700 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
701 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
703 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
704 exported by accident.
706 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
707 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
708 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
710 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
711 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
712 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
713 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
715 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
717 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
719 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
722 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
723 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
725 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
726 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
728 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
729 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
730 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
731 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
732 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
733 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
734 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
735 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
737 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
738 synced with the kernel:
740 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
741 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
743 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
744 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
745 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
747 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
748 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
750 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
752 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
753 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
756 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
758 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
759 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
761 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
762 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
763 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
764 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
765 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
767 Security related changes:
769 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
770 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
772 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
773 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
775 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
776 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
779 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
780 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
782 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
784 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
785 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
786 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
788 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
790 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
791 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
792 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
794 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
795 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
796 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
797 x86 and other generic code
798 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
799 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
801 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
802 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
803 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
804 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
805 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
806 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
807 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
809 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
810 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
811 order of 0D36 and 0D37
812 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
814 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
815 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
817 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
819 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
820 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
821 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
823 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
824 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
825 failures consistently
826 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
827 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
828 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
829 frame-pointer on i386
830 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
832 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
833 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
834 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
835 generic c code is used
836 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
837 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
839 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
841 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
842 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
844 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
845 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
846 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
847 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
848 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
849 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
850 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
851 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
852 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
853 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
855 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
857 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
858 new posix_spawn implementation
859 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
860 leads to lower CPU frequency
861 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
862 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
863 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
864 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
865 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
866 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
867 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
868 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
869 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
870 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
871 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
872 not support gethostbyname4_r
873 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
875 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
877 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
878 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
879 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
880 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
881 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
882 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
883 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
885 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
886 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
887 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
888 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
889 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
890 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
891 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
892 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
893 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
894 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
895 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
896 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
898 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
899 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
900 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
901 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
902 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
903 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
904 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
905 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
907 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
908 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
909 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
910 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
911 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
912 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
913 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
914 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
915 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
916 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
917 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
918 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
919 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
920 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
921 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
922 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
923 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
924 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
925 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
926 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
927 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
929 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
930 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
931 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
932 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
933 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
935 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
936 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
938 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
939 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
941 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
942 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
944 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
945 posix/sched_cpucount.c
946 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
947 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
949 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
950 leading to relocation crash
951 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
952 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
953 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
954 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
955 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
956 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
957 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
958 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
959 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
961 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
963 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
964 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
965 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
966 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
967 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
968 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
969 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
970 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
972 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
974 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
976 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
977 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
978 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
979 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
980 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
981 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
982 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
983 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
984 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
985 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
986 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
987 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
988 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
989 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
990 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
991 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
992 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
993 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
994 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
995 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
996 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
997 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
998 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
999 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1000 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1001 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1002 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1004 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1005 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1006 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1007 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1008 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
1013 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1014 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1015 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1018 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1019 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1020 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
1023 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1024 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1025 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1028 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1029 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1030 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1031 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1032 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1033 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1034 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1037 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1038 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1041 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1042 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1043 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1045 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1046 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1047 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1048 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1051 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
1052 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1053 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
1055 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1056 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
1057 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1058 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1059 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1060 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1061 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1062 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1063 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1064 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1065 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1068 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1070 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1072 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1073 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1074 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
1076 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1077 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1079 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1082 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1084 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
1086 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1087 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
1089 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1091 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
1092 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
1094 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1095 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1097 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1098 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1099 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1101 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1102 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1103 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1104 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1105 effects of the memory clear).
1107 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1108 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1109 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1110 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1112 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1113 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1114 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1115 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1116 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1117 if they are compiled or used with those options.
1119 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1122 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1123 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1124 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1125 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1126 as large as several megabytes.
1128 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1129 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1132 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1133 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1134 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1135 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1136 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1137 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1138 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1140 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1141 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1142 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1143 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1145 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
1146 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1147 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1150 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1151 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1152 They were already unimplemented.
1154 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1155 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1156 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1157 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1159 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1160 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1161 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1162 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1163 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1165 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1166 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1167 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1168 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1169 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1171 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1172 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1173 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1174 did not reflect that.
1176 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1177 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1178 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1179 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1180 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1181 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1182 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1185 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1186 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1187 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1188 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1190 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1191 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1192 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1193 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1195 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1196 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1199 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1200 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1203 Security related changes:
1205 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
1206 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1207 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1208 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
1209 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
1211 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1212 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1213 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1214 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1217 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1219 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1220 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1222 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1223 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1224 before it started waiting
1225 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1226 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1227 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1228 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1230 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1231 library linked with pthread
1232 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1233 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1234 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1235 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1236 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1237 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1238 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1240 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1242 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1243 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1244 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1245 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1246 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1247 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1248 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1249 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1250 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1252 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1253 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1254 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1255 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1256 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1257 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1258 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1259 causes a segmentation fault
1260 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1262 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1263 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1265 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1267 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1268 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1269 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1271 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1272 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1274 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1275 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1276 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1277 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1278 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1279 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1280 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1281 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1283 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1284 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1285 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1287 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1289 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1291 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1292 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1293 cause transition penalty
1294 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1295 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1296 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1297 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1298 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1300 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1302 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1303 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1304 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1305 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1306 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1307 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1309 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1311 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1312 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1313 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1314 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1315 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1316 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1317 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1318 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1319 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1320 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1321 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1322 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1323 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1324 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1326 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1327 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1328 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1329 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1330 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1331 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1332 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1333 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1334 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1335 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1336 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1337 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1338 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1339 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1340 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1341 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1342 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1343 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1345 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1346 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1347 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1348 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1349 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1351 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1352 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1353 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1354 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1355 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1356 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1357 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1359 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1360 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1361 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1362 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1363 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1367 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1368 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1369 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1370 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1371 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1374 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1375 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1376 been included in previous releases.
1378 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1379 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1381 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1382 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1383 instead of “union wait”.
1385 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1386 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1387 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1388 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1389 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1390 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1391 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1393 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1396 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1397 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1400 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1401 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1402 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1403 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1404 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1407 Security related changes:
1409 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1410 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1411 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1413 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1414 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1415 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1416 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
1418 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1419 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1420 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1422 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1423 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1424 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1426 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1427 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1428 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1429 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1431 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1433 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1434 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1436 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1437 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1438 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1439 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1440 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1441 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1442 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1443 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1445 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1446 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1447 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1448 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1449 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1450 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1452 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1454 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1455 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1456 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1457 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1458 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1459 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1460 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1461 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1462 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1463 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1464 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1466 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1467 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1468 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1469 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1470 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1471 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1473 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1474 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1476 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1477 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1478 Romanian locale data
1479 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1481 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1482 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1484 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1485 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1486 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1487 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1489 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1491 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1492 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1493 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1494 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1495 when using RTLD_NEXT
1496 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1497 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1498 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1499 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1500 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1501 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1502 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1503 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1504 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1506 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1507 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1508 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1509 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1511 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1513 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1515 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1516 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1517 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1518 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1519 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1520 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1522 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1523 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1525 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1526 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1528 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1530 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1532 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1533 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1534 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1535 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1536 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1537 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1538 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1539 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1540 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1541 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1542 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1543 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1544 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1545 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1547 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1549 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1550 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1551 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1552 response to getaddrinfo
1553 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1554 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1555 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1556 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1557 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1558 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1560 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1561 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1562 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1564 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1565 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1566 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1567 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1569 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1570 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1571 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1573 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1574 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1575 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1576 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1577 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1578 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1579 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1580 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1582 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1583 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1584 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1586 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1587 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1588 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1589 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1590 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1591 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1592 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1593 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1594 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1595 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1596 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1597 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1598 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1600 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1601 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1602 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1603 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1605 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1606 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1608 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1609 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1610 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1611 AS not supporting AVX512
1612 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1614 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1615 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1617 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1618 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1619 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1620 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1621 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1623 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1624 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1626 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1627 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1628 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1629 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1630 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1631 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1632 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1633 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1634 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1636 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1637 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1638 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1639 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1640 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1641 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1642 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1643 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1644 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1645 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1646 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1647 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1648 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1650 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1651 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1652 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1653 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1654 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1656 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1657 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1659 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1660 "invalid" exceptions
1661 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1662 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1663 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1664 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1665 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1666 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1667 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1668 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1669 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
1673 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1674 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1675 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1676 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1677 89, 16061, and 18568.
1679 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1680 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1681 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1682 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1683 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1684 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1685 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1687 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1688 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1689 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1691 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1692 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1693 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1694 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1695 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1696 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1697 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1699 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1700 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1701 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1702 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1703 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
1704 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
1705 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1708 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1709 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1710 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1711 independent of the GNU C Library.
1713 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1714 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1716 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1717 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1718 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1719 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1720 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1723 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1724 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
1726 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1727 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1728 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1729 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1730 defining their own copy.
1732 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1733 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1734 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1736 Security related changes:
1738 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1739 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1741 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1742 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1743 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1744 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1747 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1748 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1750 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1751 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1753 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1754 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
1755 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
1757 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1758 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1759 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1760 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1761 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1762 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1763 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1764 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1765 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1766 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1767 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1768 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1769 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1771 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1773 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1774 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1775 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1776 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1777 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1778 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1780 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1781 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1782 overflow/underflow errors
1783 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1785 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1786 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1787 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1788 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1789 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1790 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1792 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1793 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1794 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1795 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1796 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1797 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1798 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1799 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1800 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1802 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1804 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1805 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1806 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1808 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1809 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1810 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1811 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1812 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1814 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1815 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1817 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1818 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1819 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1820 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1821 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1822 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1823 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1824 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1826 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1827 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1828 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1829 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1830 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1832 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1833 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1835 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1836 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1837 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1838 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1839 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1841 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1842 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1843 (related to lock elision)
1844 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1845 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1846 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1847 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1849 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1850 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1851 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1852 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1853 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1854 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1855 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1856 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1857 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1858 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1859 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1860 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1861 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1862 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1863 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1864 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1865 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1866 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1867 contains a vector instruction exception.
1868 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1869 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1871 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1872 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1873 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1874 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1875 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1877 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1879 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1880 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1882 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1883 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1884 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1885 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1886 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1888 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1889 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1890 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1891 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1892 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1893 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1894 statically too large
1895 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1896 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1897 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1898 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1899 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1900 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1901 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1902 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1903 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1905 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1906 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1907 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1908 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1909 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1910 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1911 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1913 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1914 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1915 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1916 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1918 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1919 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1920 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1921 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1922 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1923 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1925 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1926 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1927 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1928 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1929 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1930 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1932 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1933 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1934 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1935 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1936 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1937 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1938 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1939 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1941 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1942 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1943 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1944 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1945 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1946 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1947 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1948 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1949 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1951 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1953 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1954 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1955 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1957 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1958 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1959 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1960 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1961 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1962 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1963 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1964 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1965 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1966 pthread_setaffinity_np
1967 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1968 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1969 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1970 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1971 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1973 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1974 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1975 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1976 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1977 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1978 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1979 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1981 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1982 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1983 for C99-based standards
1984 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1985 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1987 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1988 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1989 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1991 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1992 "inexact" exceptions
1993 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1995 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1996 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1997 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1998 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2000 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2001 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2002 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2003 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2004 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2005 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2006 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2007 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2008 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2009 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2011 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2012 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2013 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2014 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2016 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2017 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2018 error on 32-bit architectures
2019 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2020 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2021 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2022 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2023 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2024 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2025 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2026 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2027 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2029 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2031 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2032 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2033 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2034 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2036 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
2040 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2042 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
2043 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2044 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2045 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2046 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2047 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2048 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2049 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2050 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2051 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2052 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2053 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2054 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2055 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2056 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2057 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2058 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2059 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
2060 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2061 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2063 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2064 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2066 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2067 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2068 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2069 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2070 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2071 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
2073 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2074 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2075 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2076 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2077 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2079 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2080 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2081 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2083 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2084 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2085 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2088 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2089 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2090 condition in some applications.
2092 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
2093 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2095 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2096 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
2097 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2098 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
2099 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
2101 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2102 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2103 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2104 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
2106 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2107 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2108 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
2110 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2111 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2113 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2114 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2115 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2117 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2118 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2119 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
2123 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2125 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
2126 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2127 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2128 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2129 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2130 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2131 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2132 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2133 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2134 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2137 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2138 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2139 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2140 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2143 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2144 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2145 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2146 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2147 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2148 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
2150 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2152 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2153 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
2154 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
2156 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2157 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2158 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2159 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2160 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2161 effects being visible outside transactions.
2163 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2164 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2166 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2168 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2169 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
2170 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
2171 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2172 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
2174 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2175 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2177 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2178 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2181 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2182 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2183 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2185 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2186 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2188 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
2190 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2191 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2192 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2193 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
2195 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2196 with newer versions of bison.
2198 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2199 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2200 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2201 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2202 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2203 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2204 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2205 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2206 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2207 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2208 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2209 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2210 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2212 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2213 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2214 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2215 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2216 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
2220 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2222 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2223 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2224 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2225 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2226 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2227 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2228 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2229 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2230 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2231 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2232 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2233 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2234 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2235 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2236 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
2238 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2239 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2240 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2241 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2242 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
2243 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
2244 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2245 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2246 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2247 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2249 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2250 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2251 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2252 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2253 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
2255 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2257 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2258 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2260 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2261 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2262 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2263 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2264 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2265 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2267 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2270 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2271 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2272 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2273 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2274 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2275 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2276 test macros defined.
2278 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2280 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2281 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2282 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2283 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2284 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2285 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2288 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2289 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2290 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2291 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2294 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2295 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2296 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
2298 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2299 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2300 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2301 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
2303 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2304 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2305 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2306 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2307 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2308 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2309 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2312 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2313 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2314 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2315 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2316 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2317 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2318 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2319 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2320 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
2322 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2323 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2324 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2325 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2326 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
2327 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
2329 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2330 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2331 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2332 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
2336 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2338 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2339 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2340 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2341 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2342 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2343 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2344 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2345 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2346 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2347 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
2348 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2349 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2350 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2351 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2352 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
2353 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2354 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2355 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
2357 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2358 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2360 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2361 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2362 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
2363 extension which uses __block.
2365 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2366 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2367 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2368 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2369 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2371 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2372 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2373 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2374 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2377 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2378 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2379 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2380 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2381 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
2383 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2384 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2385 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2387 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2388 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2389 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2392 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2393 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2395 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
2396 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
2398 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2400 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2403 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
2405 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2407 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2408 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2409 for which the C library was built.
2411 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2412 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2413 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2414 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2415 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2416 in the following circumstances:
2418 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2420 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2421 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2423 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2424 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2426 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2427 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
2429 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2431 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2432 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2434 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
2436 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
2438 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
2440 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2441 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2442 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2443 disable some of those declarations.
2445 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
2446 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2447 that did nothing) has also been removed.
2449 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2450 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
2452 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2453 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2454 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2455 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2456 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2457 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2458 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2459 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2460 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2461 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2462 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2463 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2464 require recompilation.
2468 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2470 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
2471 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2472 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
2473 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2474 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2475 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2476 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2477 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2478 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2479 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2480 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2481 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2482 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2485 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2486 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2487 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2488 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2489 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2490 understands and accepts the risks.
2492 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2495 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2496 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
2498 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2499 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2500 destructor calls to glibc.
2502 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2505 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2506 non-x86 architectures.
2508 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2510 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2512 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2515 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2517 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2520 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2521 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2523 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2525 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2526 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
2528 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2529 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
2531 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2532 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2533 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2535 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2536 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2537 attributes of a process.
2539 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2540 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2541 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2542 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2545 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2546 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2548 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2552 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2554 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
2555 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2556 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2557 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2558 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2559 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2560 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2561 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2562 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2563 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2564 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2565 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2566 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2567 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2568 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
2570 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2572 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2573 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
2575 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2576 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2578 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2580 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2581 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2583 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2585 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2586 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2587 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2589 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2590 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2592 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2593 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2595 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2596 can be used with is 2.6.16.
2598 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2599 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2601 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2602 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
2603 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2604 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
2606 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2607 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2609 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
2610 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
2613 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2614 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2615 information in --help and --version output.
2617 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2618 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2619 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2621 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2622 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2623 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2624 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2625 when the mode is enabled.
2627 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2628 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2629 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2630 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2631 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2632 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2633 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
2635 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2640 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2642 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2643 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2644 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2645 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2646 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2647 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2648 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2649 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2650 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2651 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2652 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2653 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2654 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2655 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2656 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2657 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2658 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2659 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2660 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2661 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2662 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2663 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2666 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2667 configuring glibc with:
2668 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2669 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2670 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2674 + define static_assert
2676 + do not declare gets
2678 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2680 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2681 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2682 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2685 + timespec_get added
2687 + uchar.h support added
2689 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2691 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2693 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
2695 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
2697 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2698 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2700 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2701 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2703 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2704 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2705 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2706 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2707 existing applications.
2709 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
2710 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2713 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2714 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2715 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2717 * New locales: mag_IN
2719 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2720 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2721 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2722 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2723 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
2725 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2727 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2730 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2732 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2733 without a previously built glibc.
2735 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2736 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2738 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2739 now supported for ARM processors.
2741 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2742 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2743 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2745 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
2747 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2748 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2749 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2750 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
2752 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2753 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2754 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2755 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2757 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2758 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2759 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2760 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2761 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2763 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2764 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2765 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2766 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
2770 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2772 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2773 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2774 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2775 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2776 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2777 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2778 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
2780 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2781 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2783 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2784 and support for initgroups lookups.
2785 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2787 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2788 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2790 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2791 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2793 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2794 on x86-32 and x86-64.
2795 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2797 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
2798 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2800 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2801 for x86-64 and x86-32.
2802 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2804 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2805 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2807 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2808 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2810 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2811 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2813 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2814 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2816 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2817 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2819 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2820 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2822 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
2824 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2825 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2827 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2828 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2830 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
2834 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2836 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
2837 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
2838 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
2839 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
2840 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2841 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2842 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
2843 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2844 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
2845 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
2847 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2848 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2849 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
2850 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
2852 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
2853 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2854 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
2855 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2857 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
2858 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
2860 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
2861 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
2863 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
2865 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2866 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2868 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2869 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2870 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2871 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
2875 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2877 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2878 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2879 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2880 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2883 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
2885 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
2887 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2888 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
2889 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2893 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2895 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2896 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2897 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2898 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
2899 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2900 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2901 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
2902 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
2904 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
2906 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2908 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2910 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2911 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2912 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2914 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2915 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2916 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2917 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2918 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2920 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
2924 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2926 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2927 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2928 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2929 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2930 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2931 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2933 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
2935 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2937 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
2938 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2940 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
2941 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2943 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
2945 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
2946 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
2947 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
2948 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2950 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
2951 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2953 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2955 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2957 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2958 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2960 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2961 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2963 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2964 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2966 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2967 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2968 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2969 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2970 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2971 necessity is every process again.
2972 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2974 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
2975 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2977 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2978 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2980 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2981 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2982 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2984 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
2988 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2990 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2991 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2992 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2993 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2994 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2996 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
2997 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2999 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
3000 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3002 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
3003 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
3005 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3008 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
3009 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3011 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3012 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3014 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3015 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3017 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3018 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3020 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3021 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3022 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3024 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
3026 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
3027 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3029 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3030 and extend existing format specifiers.
3031 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3033 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3034 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3036 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3037 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3038 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3039 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3040 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3041 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3045 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3047 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3048 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3049 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3050 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3051 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3053 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
3054 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3056 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3057 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
3059 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3060 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3062 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3063 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3064 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3066 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3067 Implemented by Eric Blake.
3069 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
3071 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
3072 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3074 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3075 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3076 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3077 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3079 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3080 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3082 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3084 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3086 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
3090 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3092 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3093 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3094 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3095 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3096 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3097 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3098 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3100 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
3102 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
3104 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3105 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3107 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3109 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3110 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3112 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3113 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3115 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3116 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3117 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3119 * Faster memset for x86-64.
3120 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3122 * Faster memcpy on x86.
3123 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3125 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3126 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3128 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
3129 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3133 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3135 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3136 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3137 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3138 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3139 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3141 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3142 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3144 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3146 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3147 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3148 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3150 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3151 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3153 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
3154 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3156 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3158 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3159 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3161 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3162 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3164 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3165 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3167 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3169 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3170 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3172 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3173 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3176 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3177 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3181 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3183 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3184 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3185 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3186 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3187 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3188 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3189 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3192 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
3194 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3196 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3200 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3202 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3203 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3204 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3205 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3206 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3207 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3208 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3209 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3210 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3212 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
3213 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3214 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3216 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3217 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3219 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
3221 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
3223 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3224 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3225 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
3226 site might have problems with the default behavior.
3227 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3229 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
3230 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3231 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3232 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3234 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3237 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3239 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3242 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3244 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3245 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
3249 * More overflow detection functions.
3251 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3252 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
3254 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3255 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3256 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3257 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3258 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3259 by Masahide Washizawa.
3261 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3262 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3264 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3265 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3266 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3267 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
3269 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3270 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3272 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3274 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3275 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3276 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3278 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3279 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3281 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3282 for compatibility with some other systems.
3284 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
3288 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3290 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3291 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3292 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3293 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3294 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3295 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3297 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3299 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3301 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
3305 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3307 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3308 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3309 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3310 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3312 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3316 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3317 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3319 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3320 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3321 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3323 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3324 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3326 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
3328 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3330 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3331 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3334 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3335 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
3336 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3338 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
3339 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3341 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3342 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3343 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3344 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3346 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3347 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3348 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
3349 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3351 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3352 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3353 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3354 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3355 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
3359 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3360 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3362 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3363 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
3365 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
3366 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3368 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3369 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3371 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3374 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
3377 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3382 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3383 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3384 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3385 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3386 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3387 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3388 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3389 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3390 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3392 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3393 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3394 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3396 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
3398 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3399 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
3401 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3402 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3404 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
3406 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3407 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
3409 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3410 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3411 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3412 of weak definition in ld.so.
3414 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3415 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3417 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3418 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
3422 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3425 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3426 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
3428 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
3429 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
3431 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3432 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
3434 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
3435 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3436 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3438 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3439 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3441 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3442 implementation of regex.
3444 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3447 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3448 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
3450 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3451 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3452 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
3454 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
3455 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
3457 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3458 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3459 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
3461 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3462 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3464 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3465 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3468 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3472 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3473 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3475 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3476 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
3480 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3481 128-bit long double format.
3483 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3484 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
3486 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
3488 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3490 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3493 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3494 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
3496 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
3500 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
3501 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
3503 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3504 support Unicode 3.1.
3506 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3507 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
3509 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
3511 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
3512 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3513 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3515 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3516 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3518 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3519 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
3521 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
3525 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
3526 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3527 in float, double, and long double format.
3529 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
3530 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3531 128-bit long double format.
3533 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3534 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3535 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3536 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3538 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3539 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3540 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3542 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3543 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
3545 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3546 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
3548 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3549 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3550 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
3552 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3553 family of functions for Linux/S390.
3555 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3556 of functions for Linux/x86.
3558 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
3562 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
3563 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3564 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3565 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3566 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3567 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3570 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3571 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3573 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3574 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3575 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3576 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3578 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3583 only lists the names of the supported locales
3587 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3588 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3592 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3593 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3594 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3595 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3596 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3598 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3600 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3602 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
3604 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3605 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3606 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
3608 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3609 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3611 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3612 changed from the default "C" locale.
3614 * The usual bug fixes.
3618 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3619 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3622 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3624 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
3626 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3627 obviously requires a database library being available.
3629 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3631 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
3633 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3634 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3636 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3638 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3639 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3642 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3643 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3644 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
3646 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
3647 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3649 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3650 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3651 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3653 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3654 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3655 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3656 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3658 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3659 structures for the wide character tables.
3661 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3663 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
3665 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3667 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3670 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3672 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3674 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3676 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3678 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3680 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3681 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3682 implemented for Linux.
3684 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3685 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3686 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3689 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3692 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
3706 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3708 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3710 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
3712 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3714 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
3716 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
3718 * Update timezone data files.
3720 * lots of charmaps corrections
3722 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
3727 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3728 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3729 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3730 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3731 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3732 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3734 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
3735 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3737 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
3740 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3741 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
3743 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
3745 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
3748 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
3750 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3751 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
3753 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3756 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
3757 functions from ISO C 9X.
3759 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3760 real valued functions.
3762 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
3764 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3766 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
3768 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
3770 * Optimized string functions have been added.
3772 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
3774 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3776 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3777 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3779 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3780 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3784 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
3786 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
3788 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
3790 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3792 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3794 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
3796 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3797 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
3800 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3801 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
3803 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
3805 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
3807 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3808 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3810 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
3812 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3815 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3816 latest draft standards.
3818 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3820 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3821 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3822 addseverity NEW: Unix98
3823 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
3824 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3825 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3826 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3827 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3828 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3829 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3830 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3831 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3832 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3833 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
3834 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3835 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3836 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
3837 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3838 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3839 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3841 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3842 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3843 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3844 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3845 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3852 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3853 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3854 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3855 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3856 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3858 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3859 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3860 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3861 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3862 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3863 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
3867 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3868 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3874 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3875 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3876 clearerr_locked REMOVED
3877 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3879 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3880 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3881 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3891 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3892 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3894 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3895 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3900 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3901 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3904 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3905 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3909 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3910 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3912 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3913 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
3914 endutxent NEW: Unix98
3916 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3917 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3921 fattach NEW: STREAMS
3922 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3926 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3927 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3928 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3929 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3930 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3932 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3933 ferror_locked REMOVED
3934 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3935 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3936 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3937 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3938 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3939 fflush_locked REMOVED
3943 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3944 fileno_locked REMOVED
3956 fputc_locked REMOVED
3957 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3958 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3963 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3967 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3969 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3970 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3974 getchar_locked REMOVED
3976 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3977 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3979 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
3980 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
3981 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
3982 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3983 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
3984 getutxent NEW: Unix98
3985 getutxid NEW: Unix98
3986 getutxline NEW: Unix98
3987 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3988 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3989 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3990 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3991 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3992 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
3994 iconv_close NEW: iconv
3995 iconv_open NEW: iconv
3996 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3997 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3998 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3999 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4000 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4001 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4002 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4003 isastream NEW: STREAMS
4004 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
4005 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4006 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4007 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4008 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4009 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4010 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4011 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4012 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4013 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
4014 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4015 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4016 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4017 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4018 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4019 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4024 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4025 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4026 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4027 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4028 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4030 makecontext NEW: Unix98
4031 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4034 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4038 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4039 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4040 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4041 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4042 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
4043 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4044 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4045 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
4049 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
4051 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4052 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4055 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4056 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4057 profil_counter REMOVED
4058 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4059 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4060 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4061 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4063 putchar_locked REMOVED
4064 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4066 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4067 pututxline NEW: Unix98
4071 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4072 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4073 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4074 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4076 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4077 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4079 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4080 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4081 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4083 sendfile NEW: kernel
4084 setcontext NEW: Unix98
4085 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4086 setutxent NEW: Unix98
4088 sigignore NEW: Unix98
4089 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4090 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4091 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4092 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4093 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4094 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4095 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4096 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4100 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
4101 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4102 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4103 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
4104 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
4105 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4106 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4107 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4108 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4109 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4110 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4111 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4112 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4116 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4117 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4119 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4120 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
4121 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4122 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
4123 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
4124 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
4126 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4127 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4128 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4129 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4130 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4131 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4132 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4134 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4135 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4136 write_profiling REMOVED
4137 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4138 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4139 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4140 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4141 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4142 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4143 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4144 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4145 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4146 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4147 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4148 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4149 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
4150 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
4151 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4152 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4163 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4165 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4167 * rewrite of cbrt function
4169 * update of timezone data
4183 * add atoll function
4185 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
4187 * fix math functions
4191 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4193 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
4195 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4196 the ELF dynamic loader.
4198 * support for parallel builds is improved
4202 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4203 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4206 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4207 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4208 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4209 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
4210 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4211 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
4212 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4213 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4214 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
4215 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4216 files in the ELF format.
4218 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4219 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4221 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
4222 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4223 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4224 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4225 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4226 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4227 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4228 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
4229 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4230 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4231 about dynamically linked binaries.
4233 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4234 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
4235 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4236 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4237 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
4239 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
4240 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4241 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4242 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4243 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4245 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
4247 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4248 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
4249 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4250 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4251 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4252 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4253 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4254 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4255 NSS services available.
4257 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4258 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4259 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4261 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4262 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4263 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4265 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4266 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4267 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4268 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4270 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4271 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4272 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4274 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4275 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4276 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4278 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4279 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4281 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
4282 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
4283 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
4284 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4286 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4287 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4288 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
4290 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
4291 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4292 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4293 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
4294 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4295 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
4296 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
4297 the header file <printf.h> for details.
4299 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4300 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4301 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4302 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4303 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4304 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4305 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
4307 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4308 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4309 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4310 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4311 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4312 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4314 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4315 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4317 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4318 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4319 NSS scheme used in glibc.
4321 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4323 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4324 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4325 their use is discouraged.
4327 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4328 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
4330 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4331 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
4333 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4334 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4336 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4339 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4340 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
4341 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4342 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4343 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
4345 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4346 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4347 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4348 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
4350 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4351 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4353 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4354 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4355 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4356 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4359 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4360 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4362 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4363 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4365 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
4366 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
4367 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4368 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
4370 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4372 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4373 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4374 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4376 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4377 for arithmetic and string handling.
4379 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
4380 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4381 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4382 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4384 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4385 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4386 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4387 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4388 programs already written to use it.)
4390 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4393 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4396 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4397 a given effective group ID.
4399 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4400 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4401 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4402 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4404 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
4405 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
4406 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4407 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4408 doing the same thing.
4410 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4411 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4413 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
4414 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
4416 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4418 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4419 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4420 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
4421 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
4422 `-ldb' to get these functions.
4424 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4425 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
4427 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
4428 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4429 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4432 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4434 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4435 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4438 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4439 and writing the utmp file.
4441 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4444 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4445 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4446 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4448 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4449 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4451 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4452 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4455 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4456 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4457 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4458 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4460 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4461 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4462 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4464 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4465 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4466 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4469 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4472 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4475 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4477 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4478 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4479 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
4483 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4485 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4486 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4488 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4489 want to put themselves in the background.
4491 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4492 run without an operating system.
4494 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4495 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4497 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4498 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4500 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4502 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4503 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4506 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4509 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4510 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4514 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4515 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4516 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4518 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4519 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4521 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4522 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4524 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4526 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4528 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4531 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4532 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4533 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4535 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4537 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4538 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4539 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4541 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4542 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4543 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4544 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4545 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4548 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4549 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4550 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4551 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4552 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4555 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4556 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4560 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4561 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4563 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4564 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4565 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4567 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4568 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4569 address of the last character written.
4571 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4572 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4574 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4575 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4577 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4578 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4579 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4580 you dereference this pointer.
4582 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4583 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4585 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4586 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4587 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4588 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4590 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4591 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4592 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4593 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4597 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4598 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4599 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4600 in Emacs or the `info' program.
4601 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
4603 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4605 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4607 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4608 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4610 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4611 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4613 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4614 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4616 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4617 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4618 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4619 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4620 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4622 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4623 to the error code in `errno'.
4625 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4626 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4627 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4630 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4631 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4632 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4634 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4635 uniquely-named temporary file.
4639 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4640 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4641 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4643 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4646 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4647 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4649 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4653 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4654 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4655 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4656 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4658 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4659 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4660 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4662 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4663 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4665 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4666 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4667 made itself into a shared library.
4669 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4670 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4672 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4673 with limited length.
4675 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4677 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4679 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4681 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4682 function for traversing a directory tree.
4684 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4685 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4686 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4687 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4689 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4690 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4692 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4694 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4695 things to your strings.
4697 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4699 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4700 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4701 supporting those systems.
4703 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4704 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4705 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4706 configuration files.
4708 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4709 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4711 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
4712 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4715 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4716 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4717 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4718 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4719 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4720 required storage is not available.
4722 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4723 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
4725 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4726 latest files released from Berkeley.
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