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14 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
16 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
17 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
18 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
20 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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24 Security related changes:
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28 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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31 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
38 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
39 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
40 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
42 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
43 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
45 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
46 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
47 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
48 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
49 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
50 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
51 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
52 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
53 glibc, and must be installed.
55 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
56 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
57 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
59 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
60 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
62 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
65 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
66 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
67 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
68 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
69 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
70 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
72 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
73 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
74 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
77 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
78 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
80 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
83 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
85 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
86 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
87 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
89 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
90 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
91 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
92 object dependency cases.
94 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
95 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
96 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
97 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
99 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
100 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
101 return value is only used for its boolean status.
103 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
104 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
105 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
106 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
107 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
108 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
109 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
110 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
111 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
112 Restartable Sequences.
114 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
115 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
117 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
118 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
119 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
120 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
121 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
122 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
123 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
126 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
127 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
128 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
129 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
130 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
133 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
134 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
136 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
137 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
140 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
141 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
146 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
147 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
149 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
150 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
151 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
152 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
153 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
155 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
156 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
158 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
159 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
160 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
162 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
163 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
164 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
165 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
168 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
169 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
171 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
173 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
174 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
175 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
177 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
178 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
180 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
181 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
183 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
185 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
187 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
188 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
189 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
191 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
192 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
193 catching coredumps and backtraces.
195 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
196 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
197 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
199 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
200 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
201 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
203 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
204 support prelink PIE binaries.
206 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
208 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
209 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
210 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
211 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
212 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
214 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
215 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
216 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
217 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
219 Security related changes:
221 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
222 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
223 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
225 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
226 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
228 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
229 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
230 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
232 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
233 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
234 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
235 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
236 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
238 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
240 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
241 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
242 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
243 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
245 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
246 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
248 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
250 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
251 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
252 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
253 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
254 ID whose lifetime has not ended
255 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
257 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
259 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
260 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
261 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
262 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
263 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
264 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
265 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
266 --enable-initfini-array
267 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
268 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
269 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
270 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
271 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
272 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
274 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
275 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
276 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
278 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
279 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
280 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
282 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
283 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
285 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
286 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
287 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
289 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
290 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
291 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
292 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
293 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
294 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
295 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
297 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
299 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
300 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
302 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
303 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
304 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
305 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
306 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
307 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
308 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
310 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
312 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
313 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
314 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
315 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
317 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
318 systems with TIMESIZE=64
319 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
320 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
321 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
322 spurious NUL character on state reset
323 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
325 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
326 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
328 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
329 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
331 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
332 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
333 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
334 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
335 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
336 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
338 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
340 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
341 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
342 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
343 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
345 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
346 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
347 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
348 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
349 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
350 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
351 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
352 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
353 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
354 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
355 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
356 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
357 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
358 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
360 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
362 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
363 results (CVE-2021-3998)
364 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
366 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
367 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
369 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
371 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
372 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
373 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
380 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
381 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
382 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
383 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
384 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
385 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
386 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
387 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
388 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
389 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
390 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
391 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
392 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
393 potentially exposing application bugs.
395 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
396 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
397 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
398 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
400 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
401 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
402 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
403 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
404 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
407 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
408 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
409 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
411 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
412 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
413 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
414 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
416 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
418 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
419 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
420 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
421 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
422 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
424 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
425 --disable-scv configure option.
427 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
428 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
429 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
430 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
431 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
432 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
435 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
436 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
437 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
438 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
439 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
440 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
443 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
444 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
446 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
447 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
448 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
449 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
450 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
451 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
452 is currently a GNU extension.
454 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
455 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
457 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
458 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
459 although it is also present in other systems.
461 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
462 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
463 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
464 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
466 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
467 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
468 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
470 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
472 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
473 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
476 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
477 programs should use the equivalent standard function
478 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
480 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
481 programs should use the equivalent standard function
482 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
484 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
485 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
487 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
489 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
490 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
491 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
492 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
493 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
494 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
495 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
496 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
497 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
498 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
499 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
501 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
502 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
503 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
504 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
505 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
506 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
507 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
508 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
510 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
511 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
512 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
513 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
514 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
515 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
516 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
518 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
519 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
520 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
521 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
522 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
523 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
524 upgrade or downgrade process.
526 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
527 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
528 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
530 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
531 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
532 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
533 no longer have any effect on malloc.
535 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
536 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
537 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
538 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
539 this functionality back.
541 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
542 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
543 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
544 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
546 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
547 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
548 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
549 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
550 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
551 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
552 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
553 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
554 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
556 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
558 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
559 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
560 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
561 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
563 Security related changes:
565 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
566 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
567 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
568 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
570 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
571 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
572 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
574 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
575 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
576 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
578 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
580 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
581 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
582 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
583 given integer (closefrom)
584 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
585 name containing multi-byte character(s)
586 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
587 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
588 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
589 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
590 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
592 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
593 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
594 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
595 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
596 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
597 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
598 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
600 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
601 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
602 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
603 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
604 pthread_create and dlopen
605 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
606 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
607 when non-root user changes priority
608 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
610 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
611 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
612 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
614 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
615 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
617 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
618 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
619 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
620 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
622 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
623 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
624 the right free implementation
625 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
626 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
627 shm_open to pick wrong directory
628 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
629 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
631 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
632 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
633 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
634 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
635 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
636 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
637 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
639 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
640 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
642 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
643 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
644 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
645 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
646 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
647 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
649 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
650 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
651 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
652 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
653 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
654 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
655 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
656 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
658 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
659 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
661 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
662 information for the current directory
663 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
664 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
666 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
667 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
669 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
670 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
671 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
672 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
674 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
675 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
676 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
677 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
678 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
679 tries resolving them lazily
680 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
682 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
683 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
685 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
686 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
687 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
689 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
691 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
692 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
693 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
695 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
696 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
697 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
698 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
699 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
700 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
701 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
702 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
703 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
705 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
706 thread never allocated anything
707 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
708 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
709 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
710 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
711 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
713 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
714 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
715 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
717 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
725 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
726 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
727 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
729 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
730 to change argv[0] string.
732 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
733 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
734 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
735 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
736 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
737 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
738 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
739 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
740 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
742 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
743 information and library search path diagnostics.
745 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
746 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
747 larger than fit in an integer.
749 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
751 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
752 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
758 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
761 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
762 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
763 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
764 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
767 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
769 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
772 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
773 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
774 Instead, the default implementation is used.
776 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
777 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
778 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
781 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
782 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
783 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
785 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
786 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
787 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
788 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
789 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
790 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
792 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
793 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
794 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
795 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
796 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
797 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
800 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
802 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
803 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
804 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
805 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
806 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
807 perform any adjustments.
809 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
810 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
811 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
812 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
814 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
816 Security related changes:
818 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
819 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
820 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
821 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
822 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
824 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
825 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
826 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
828 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
829 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
831 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
832 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
834 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
836 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
837 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
838 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
839 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
841 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
842 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
843 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
844 "haswell" platform subdirectory
845 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
847 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
849 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
851 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
852 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
853 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
854 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
855 changing gnuc version
856 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
858 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
860 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
861 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
862 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
863 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
864 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
865 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
866 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
867 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
868 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
870 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
871 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
872 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
874 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
876 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
877 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
879 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
880 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
881 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
882 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
883 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
885 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
886 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
887 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
889 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
890 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
891 at the end of a memory mapping
892 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
893 by the caller to the kernel
894 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
895 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
896 declarations for __sigsetjmp
897 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
899 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
900 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
901 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
902 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
903 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
904 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
905 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
907 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
908 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
909 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
910 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
912 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
914 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
916 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
917 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
918 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
919 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
921 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
923 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
924 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
925 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
927 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
929 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
931 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
933 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
934 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
935 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
936 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
938 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
940 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
942 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
943 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
944 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
946 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
947 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
948 [27177] dynamic-link:
949 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
951 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
952 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
953 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
954 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
961 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
962 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
963 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
965 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
967 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
968 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
969 Three ABIs are supported:
975 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
976 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
978 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
979 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
981 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
982 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
983 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
986 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
987 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
988 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
990 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
991 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
992 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
994 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
995 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
996 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
997 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1000 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1001 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1002 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1003 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1004 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1005 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1007 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1008 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1010 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1011 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1012 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1013 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1014 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1015 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1017 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1018 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1020 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1021 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1022 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1023 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1024 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1025 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1026 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1027 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1028 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1029 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1030 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1033 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1035 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1036 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1037 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1038 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1039 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1040 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1041 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1043 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1044 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1045 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1046 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1047 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1048 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1049 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1050 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1051 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1053 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1054 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1055 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1056 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1057 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1059 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1060 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1061 was not declared in any header file.
1063 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1064 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1065 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1066 sigaction functions instead.
1068 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1069 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1071 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1072 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1073 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1074 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1077 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1078 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1079 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1080 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1081 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1083 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1084 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1085 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1086 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1088 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1089 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1090 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1091 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1092 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1093 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1094 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1096 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1097 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1098 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1099 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1100 flavor of secure RPC.)
1102 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1103 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1104 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1105 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1106 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1107 object, to enable the hooks.
1109 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1110 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1111 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1114 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1116 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1117 long double redirects.
1119 Security related changes:
1121 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1122 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1123 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1125 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1126 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1127 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1129 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1130 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1132 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1133 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1134 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1137 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1139 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1140 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1141 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1142 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1143 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1144 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1145 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1146 filtee has constructor
1147 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1148 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1149 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1150 character entities for infinity & pi
1151 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1152 segfaults in applications
1153 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1154 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1155 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1156 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1157 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1158 function with -mlong-double-64
1159 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1161 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1163 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1164 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1165 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1166 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1167 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1168 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1170 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1171 dynamically loaded dsos
1172 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1173 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1175 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1176 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1177 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1178 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1179 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1180 stale configuration forever
1181 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1183 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1185 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1186 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1188 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1189 on 32 bit and old kernel
1190 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1191 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1193 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1194 amount of sigset_t bytes
1195 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1197 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1198 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1199 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1200 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1201 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1202 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1203 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1204 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1205 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1206 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1208 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1209 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1210 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1211 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1212 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1213 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1214 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1216 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1217 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1219 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1220 exiting detached thread
1221 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1223 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1225 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1226 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1227 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1228 dependencies in audit mode
1229 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1230 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1231 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1232 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1233 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1235 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1236 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1238 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1239 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1241 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1242 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1243 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1244 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1245 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1246 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1247 corruption in memset
1254 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1255 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1256 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1257 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1258 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1259 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1261 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1262 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1263 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1264 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1266 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1267 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1268 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1270 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1272 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1273 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1274 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1275 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1276 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1277 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1278 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1279 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1281 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1283 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1284 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1285 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1286 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1287 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1288 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1290 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1291 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1292 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1294 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1295 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1296 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1297 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1299 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1300 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1301 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1302 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1303 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1304 made this no longer practical.
1306 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1307 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1308 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1309 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1312 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1313 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1314 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1316 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1317 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1318 using clock_gettime instead.
1320 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1321 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1322 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1323 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1324 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1326 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1327 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1328 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1329 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1331 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1332 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1333 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1334 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1335 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1336 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1338 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1339 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1340 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1341 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1344 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1345 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1346 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1348 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1351 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1352 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1353 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1354 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1355 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1357 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1358 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1359 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1360 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1361 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1362 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1363 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1364 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1366 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1367 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1369 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1370 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1371 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1372 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1373 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1374 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1376 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1378 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1379 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1380 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1382 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1383 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1384 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1386 Security related changes:
1388 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1389 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1391 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1392 environment variable during program execution after a security
1393 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1394 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1395 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1397 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1399 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1400 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1401 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1402 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1403 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1404 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1405 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1406 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1408 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1409 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1410 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1411 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1412 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1413 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1414 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1415 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1416 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1417 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1419 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1421 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1422 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1423 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1424 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1425 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1426 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1427 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1429 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1431 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1432 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1433 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1434 (stringop-overflow error)
1435 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1436 functions other can lead to crashes
1437 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1438 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1440 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1441 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1442 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1443 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1444 still can fail with an error
1445 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1446 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1447 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1448 initialized correctly
1449 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1451 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1452 value to an unsigned
1453 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1454 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1455 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1457 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1459 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1461 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1463 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1464 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1465 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1467 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1468 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1470 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1471 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1472 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1473 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1474 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1475 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1482 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1483 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1484 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1486 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1487 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1489 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1490 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1491 to the callback function.
1493 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1495 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1496 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1499 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1501 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1502 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1503 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1504 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1505 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1507 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1508 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1509 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1510 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1511 link time reference, is gone.
1513 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1514 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1515 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1516 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1517 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1518 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1519 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1520 the clock choice at initialization time).
1522 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1523 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1524 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1526 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1528 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1529 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1530 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1531 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1532 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1533 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1534 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1535 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1536 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1538 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1539 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1540 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1541 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1544 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1545 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1547 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1548 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1550 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1551 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1553 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1556 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1557 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1558 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1560 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1561 header have been removed.
1563 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1564 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1565 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1566 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1568 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1570 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1572 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1573 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1575 Security related changes:
1577 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1578 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1579 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1580 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1581 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1582 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1583 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1585 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1586 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1587 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1589 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1591 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1592 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1593 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1594 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1595 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1596 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1597 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1598 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1599 invalid input drops valid char
1600 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1601 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1602 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1603 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1604 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1606 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1607 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1608 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1609 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1611 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1612 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1613 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1614 for long double = double
1615 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1616 long double = double
1617 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1618 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1619 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1621 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1622 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1624 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1625 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1626 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1627 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1628 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1629 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1630 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1631 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1632 not the default "nor"
1633 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1634 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1635 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1636 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1638 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1639 unnecessary librt dependencies
1640 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1641 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1642 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1643 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1645 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1646 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1648 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1649 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1650 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1651 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1652 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1653 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1654 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1655 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1656 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1657 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1658 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1659 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1661 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1663 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1664 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1666 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1667 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1668 kernels and break testing
1669 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1670 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1671 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1672 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1673 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1674 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1675 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1677 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1678 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1680 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1682 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1683 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1684 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1685 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1686 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1687 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1688 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1689 always implemented in the same library
1690 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1691 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1692 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1700 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1701 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1703 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1704 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1705 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1706 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1707 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1708 configured location.
1710 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
1712 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1713 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1715 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1716 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1717 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1718 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1719 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1720 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1721 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1722 process actually does not use HTM).
1724 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1725 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1726 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1727 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1728 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1731 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1732 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1733 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
1734 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
1735 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1737 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1738 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1740 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1741 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1743 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1744 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1745 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1746 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1747 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1748 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1749 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1751 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1752 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1753 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1755 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1757 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1758 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
1760 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1761 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1762 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1763 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1765 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1766 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1767 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1768 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1771 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1772 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1773 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1774 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1775 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1776 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1778 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1779 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1780 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1781 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1782 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1784 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1785 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1786 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1788 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1790 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1792 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1793 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1795 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1796 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1798 Security related changes:
1800 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1801 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1802 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1804 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1805 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1806 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1807 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1808 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1810 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1811 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1812 or command injection issues in applications.
1814 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1816 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1817 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1818 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1820 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1821 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1822 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1824 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1825 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1826 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1827 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1828 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1829 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1830 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1831 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1832 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1833 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1834 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1835 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1836 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1837 pointer argument is non-NULL
1838 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1839 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1840 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1841 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1842 multithreads call popen
1843 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1844 and pthread_create fails.
1845 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1846 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1848 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1849 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1850 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1852 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1854 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1856 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1857 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1859 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1860 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1861 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1862 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1863 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1864 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1865 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1867 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1868 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1869 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1871 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1872 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1873 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1874 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1876 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1878 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1879 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1880 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1881 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1883 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1885 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1886 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1887 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1889 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1890 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1891 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1892 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1893 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1894 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1896 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1897 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1898 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1899 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1900 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1901 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1902 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1903 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1904 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1905 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1906 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1907 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1908 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1909 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1911 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1912 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1913 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1914 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1915 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1917 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1918 nearest rounding mode
1919 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1920 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1921 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1922 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1923 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1924 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1925 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1926 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1927 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1929 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1930 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1932 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1933 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1934 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1935 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1937 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1939 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1941 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1943 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1944 answers will be rejected)
1945 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1952 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1953 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1954 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1955 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1956 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1957 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1958 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1959 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1960 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1961 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1962 archive or binary locales.
1964 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1965 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1966 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1967 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1968 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1969 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1970 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1971 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
1972 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1973 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1974 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1977 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1978 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1979 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1980 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1981 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1982 field) to indicate such support is required.
1984 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1985 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1986 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1988 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1989 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1991 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1992 fMxaddfNx functions.
1994 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1995 fMxsubfNx functions.
1997 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1998 fMxmulfNx functions.
2000 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2001 fMxdivfNx functions.
2003 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2004 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2005 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2006 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2009 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2010 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2012 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2015 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2016 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2017 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2018 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2019 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2020 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2021 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2022 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2024 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2025 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2026 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2027 the fstatat64 function.
2029 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2030 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2031 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2032 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2033 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2034 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2035 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2036 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2037 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2039 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2040 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2041 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2042 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2043 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2044 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2045 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2046 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2047 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2048 results in a load failure now.
2050 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2051 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2054 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2055 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2057 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2058 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2060 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2062 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2063 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2065 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2067 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2069 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2071 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2072 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2073 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2075 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2076 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2077 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2078 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2079 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2080 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2082 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2083 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2084 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2085 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2086 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2087 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2090 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2091 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2092 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2093 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2094 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2095 further explanation.
2097 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2098 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2099 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2101 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2103 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2104 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2105 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2107 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2108 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2109 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2110 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2112 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2113 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2114 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2115 for this function instead.
2117 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2118 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2119 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2121 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2122 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2123 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2124 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2126 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2127 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2128 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2129 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2130 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2132 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2133 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2134 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2135 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2136 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2137 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2140 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2141 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2142 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2145 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2146 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2147 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2149 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2150 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2151 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2152 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2153 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2154 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2156 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2157 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2158 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2159 behavior in a future release.
2161 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2163 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2165 Security related changes:
2167 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2168 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2169 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2170 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2172 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2173 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2175 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2176 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2179 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2180 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2181 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2183 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2185 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2186 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2187 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2188 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2189 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2190 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2191 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2192 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2193 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2195 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2196 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2197 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2198 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2199 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2201 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2203 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2204 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2205 scope with -O1 and higher
2206 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2207 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2208 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2209 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2210 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2211 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2212 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2213 horrible machine code)
2214 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2216 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2217 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2219 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2220 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2222 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2223 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2224 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2225 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2226 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2228 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2229 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2230 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2231 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2232 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2234 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2235 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2236 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2238 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2239 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2240 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2241 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2242 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2243 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2244 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2245 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2246 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2247 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2248 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2249 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2250 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2252 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2254 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2255 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2256 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2257 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2258 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2259 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2260 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2261 for Spanish with CLDR
2262 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2263 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2264 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2265 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2266 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2267 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2269 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2271 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2272 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2273 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2274 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2276 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2277 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2278 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2279 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2280 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2281 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2282 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2283 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2284 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2285 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2286 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2287 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2288 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2289 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2290 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2291 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2292 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2294 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2295 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2297 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2298 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2299 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2300 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2301 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2302 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2304 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2306 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2307 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2308 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2309 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2310 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2311 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2312 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2313 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2314 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2315 and libc build with -Os)
2316 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2317 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2318 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2319 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2320 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2321 that changes /etc/passwd
2322 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2324 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2325 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2326 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2328 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2329 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2330 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2331 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2332 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2334 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2335 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2337 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2338 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2339 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2340 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2342 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2343 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2344 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2345 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2347 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2349 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2351 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2353 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2355 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2356 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2357 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2358 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2359 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2360 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2361 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2362 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2364 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2371 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2372 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2373 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2374 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2375 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2376 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2377 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2378 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2379 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2381 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2382 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2385 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2387 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2389 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2390 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2391 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2392 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2393 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2394 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2395 from a security and performance perspective.
2397 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2398 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2399 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2400 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2402 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2403 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2404 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2405 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2406 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2408 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2409 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2410 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2411 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2414 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2415 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2416 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2418 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2420 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2421 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2424 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2426 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2428 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2429 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2430 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2432 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2433 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2434 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2435 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2436 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2437 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2438 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2440 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2441 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2442 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2443 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2444 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2445 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2446 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2448 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2449 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2450 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2451 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2454 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2455 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2456 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2457 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2459 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2460 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2461 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2463 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2464 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2465 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2467 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2468 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2469 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2475 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2477 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2478 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2479 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2480 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2481 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2482 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2483 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2484 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2485 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2488 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2489 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2490 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2492 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2493 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2494 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2495 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2496 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2497 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2498 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2499 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2500 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2501 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2502 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2503 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2504 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2505 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2506 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2507 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2508 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2509 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2510 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2511 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2512 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2513 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2514 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2515 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2516 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2517 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2519 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2520 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2522 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2523 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2524 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2525 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2526 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2527 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2528 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2530 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2531 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2532 exp10l for these functions instead.
2534 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2535 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2536 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2538 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2539 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2542 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2543 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2544 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2545 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2547 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2548 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2550 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2551 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2553 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2556 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2558 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2559 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2560 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2563 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2564 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2565 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2566 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2567 use, but predates the bits convention.
2569 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2571 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2574 Security related changes:
2576 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2577 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2578 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2579 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2582 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2583 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2584 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2585 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2587 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2588 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2589 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2592 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2593 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2594 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2596 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2597 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2598 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2599 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2601 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2602 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2603 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2606 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2607 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2608 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2609 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2610 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2612 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2613 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2616 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2617 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2618 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2620 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2621 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2622 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2624 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2625 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2626 small, instead of NULL.
2628 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2630 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2631 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2632 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2634 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2635 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2636 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2638 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2639 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2640 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2641 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2642 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2643 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2644 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2645 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2646 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2648 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2649 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2650 width Latin characters
2651 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2652 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2653 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2655 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2656 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2658 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2659 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2660 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2661 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2662 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2664 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2665 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2666 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2667 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2668 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2669 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2670 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2671 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2672 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2673 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2675 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2676 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2677 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2678 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2679 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2680 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2681 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2682 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2684 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2685 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2687 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2688 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2690 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2691 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2692 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2693 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2694 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2695 __regcall calling convention
2696 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2697 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2698 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2699 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2700 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2701 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2702 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2703 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2704 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2705 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2706 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2707 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2708 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2710 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2712 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2714 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2715 consistency check failures
2716 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2717 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2718 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2719 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2721 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2723 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2724 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2725 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2726 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2727 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2728 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2729 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2730 on memory allocation failure
2731 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2732 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2734 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2736 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2737 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2738 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2739 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2740 instead of EAI_NODATA
2741 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2742 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2743 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2744 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2746 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2747 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2748 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2749 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2750 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2751 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2752 allocation in syscall loops)
2753 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2754 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2755 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2756 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2757 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2758 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2759 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2760 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2761 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2763 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2764 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2765 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2767 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2768 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2770 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2772 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2773 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2774 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2775 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2776 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2777 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2778 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2779 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2780 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2781 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2782 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2783 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2784 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2785 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2786 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2787 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2788 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2789 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2791 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2793 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2794 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2796 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2797 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2798 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
2799 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
2801 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2802 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2803 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2804 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2805 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2806 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2807 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2808 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2809 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2810 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2811 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2813 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2814 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2815 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2816 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2817 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2818 the svid compat wrapper
2819 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2820 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2821 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2822 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2823 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2824 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2826 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2827 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2829 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2830 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2831 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2832 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2833 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2834 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2836 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2837 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2838 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2839 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2841 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2842 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2844 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2845 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2846 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2847 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2848 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2849 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2850 inside the ASCII printable range
2851 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2853 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2854 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2855 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2857 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2858 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2860 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2861 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2862 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2864 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2865 networking interface
2866 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2867 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2868 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2869 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2870 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2871 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2872 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2873 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2874 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2876 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2877 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2878 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2879 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2880 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2881 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2882 same as for Croatian
2883 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2884 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2885 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2887 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2889 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2890 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2891 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2892 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2893 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2895 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2896 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2897 modified in case of success
2898 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2899 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2901 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2903 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2904 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2905 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2906 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2907 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2908 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2909 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2910 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2912 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2913 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2914 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2915 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2916 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2917 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2918 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2919 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2920 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2922 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2923 elision and tunables
2924 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2926 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2927 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2928 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2930 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2931 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2933 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2934 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2935 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2936 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2937 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2938 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2939 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2940 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2941 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2948 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2949 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2950 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2951 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2952 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2953 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2954 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2956 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2957 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
2958 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2959 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2960 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2961 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2962 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
2964 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2965 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2968 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
2970 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2971 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2972 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
2974 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2975 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2976 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2977 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2978 object are still limited to six search domains.
2980 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2981 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2982 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
2984 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2985 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
2987 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2988 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2989 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2990 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
2992 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2993 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2994 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2995 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
2997 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2998 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2999 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3000 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3002 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3003 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3004 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3006 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3007 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3008 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3009 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3011 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3012 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3013 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3014 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3015 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3017 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3018 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3019 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3020 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3021 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3022 interfaces should be used instead.
3024 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3026 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3027 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3028 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3029 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3030 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3031 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3032 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3033 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3035 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3038 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3039 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3040 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3041 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3043 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3044 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3047 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3048 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3049 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3050 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3051 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3053 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3054 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3055 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3056 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3058 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3059 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3060 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3061 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3063 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3064 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3066 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3067 exported by accident.
3069 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3070 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3071 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3073 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3074 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3075 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3076 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3078 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3080 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3082 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3085 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3086 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3088 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3089 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3091 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3092 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3093 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3094 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3095 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3096 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3097 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3098 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3100 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3101 synced with the kernel:
3103 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3104 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3106 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3107 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3108 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3110 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3111 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3113 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3115 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3116 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3119 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3121 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3122 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3124 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3125 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3126 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3127 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3128 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3130 Security related changes:
3132 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3133 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3135 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3136 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3138 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3139 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3142 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3143 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3145 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3147 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3148 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3149 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3151 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3153 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3154 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3155 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3157 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3158 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3159 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3160 x86 and other generic code
3161 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3162 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3164 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3165 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3166 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3167 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3168 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3169 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3170 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3172 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3173 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3174 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3175 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3177 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3178 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3180 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3182 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3183 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3184 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3186 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3187 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3188 failures consistently
3189 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3190 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3191 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3192 frame-pointer on i386
3193 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3195 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3196 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3197 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3198 generic c code is used
3199 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3200 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3202 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3204 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3205 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3207 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3208 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3209 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3210 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3211 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3212 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3213 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3214 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3215 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3216 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3218 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3220 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3221 new posix_spawn implementation
3222 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3223 leads to lower CPU frequency
3224 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3225 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3226 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3227 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3228 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3229 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3230 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3231 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3232 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3233 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3234 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3235 not support gethostbyname4_r
3236 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3238 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3240 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3241 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3242 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3243 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3244 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3245 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3246 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3248 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3249 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3250 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3251 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3252 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3253 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3254 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3255 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3256 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3257 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3258 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3259 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3261 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3262 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3263 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3264 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3265 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3266 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3267 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3268 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3270 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3271 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3272 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3273 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3274 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3275 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3276 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3277 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3278 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3279 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3280 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3281 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3282 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3283 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3284 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3285 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3286 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3287 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3288 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3289 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3290 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3292 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3293 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3294 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3295 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3296 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3298 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3299 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3301 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3302 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3304 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3305 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3307 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3308 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3309 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3310 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3312 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3313 leading to relocation crash
3314 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3315 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3316 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3317 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3318 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3319 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3320 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3321 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3322 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3324 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3326 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3327 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3328 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3329 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3330 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3331 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3332 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3333 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3335 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3337 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3339 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3340 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3341 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3342 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3343 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3344 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3345 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3346 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3347 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3348 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3349 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3350 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3351 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3352 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3353 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3354 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3355 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3356 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3357 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3358 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3359 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3360 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3361 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3362 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3363 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3364 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3365 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3367 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3368 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3369 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3370 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3371 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3376 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3377 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3378 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3381 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3382 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3383 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3386 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3387 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3388 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3391 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3392 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3393 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3394 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3395 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3396 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3397 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3400 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3401 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3404 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3405 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3406 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3408 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3409 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3410 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3411 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3414 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3415 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3416 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3418 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3419 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3420 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3421 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3422 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3423 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3424 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3425 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3426 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3427 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3428 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3431 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3433 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3435 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3436 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3437 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3439 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3440 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3442 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3445 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3447 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3449 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3450 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3452 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3454 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3455 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3457 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3458 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3460 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3461 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3462 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3464 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3465 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3466 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3467 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3468 effects of the memory clear).
3470 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3471 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3472 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3473 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3475 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3476 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3477 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3478 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3479 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3480 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3482 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3485 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3486 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3487 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3488 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3489 as large as several megabytes.
3491 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3492 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3495 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3496 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3497 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3498 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3499 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3500 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3501 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3503 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3504 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3505 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3506 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3508 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3509 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3510 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3513 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3514 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3515 They were already unimplemented.
3517 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3518 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3519 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3520 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3522 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3523 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3524 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3525 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3526 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3528 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3529 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3530 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3531 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3532 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3534 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3535 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3536 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3537 did not reflect that.
3539 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3540 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3541 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3542 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3543 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3544 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3545 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3548 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3549 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3550 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3551 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3553 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3554 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3555 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3556 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3558 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3559 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3562 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3563 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3566 Security related changes:
3568 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3569 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3570 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3571 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3572 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3574 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3575 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3576 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3577 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3580 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3582 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3583 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3585 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3586 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3587 before it started waiting
3588 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3589 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3590 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3591 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3593 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3594 library linked with pthread
3595 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3596 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3597 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3598 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3599 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3600 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3601 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3603 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3605 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3606 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3607 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3608 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3609 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3610 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3611 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3612 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3613 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3615 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3616 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3617 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3618 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3619 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3620 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3621 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3622 causes a segmentation fault
3623 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3625 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3626 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3628 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3630 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3631 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3632 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3634 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3635 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3637 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3638 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3639 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3640 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3641 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3642 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3643 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3644 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3646 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3647 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3648 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3650 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3652 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3654 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3655 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3656 cause transition penalty
3657 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3658 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3659 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3660 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3661 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3663 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3665 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3666 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3667 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3668 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3669 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3670 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3672 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3674 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3675 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3676 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3677 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3678 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3679 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3680 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3681 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3682 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3683 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3684 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3685 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3686 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3687 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3689 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3690 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3691 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3692 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3693 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3694 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3695 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3696 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3697 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3698 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3699 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3700 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3701 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3702 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3703 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3704 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3705 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3706 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3708 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3709 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3710 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3711 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3712 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3714 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3715 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3716 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3717 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3718 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3719 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3720 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3722 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3723 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3724 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3725 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3726 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3730 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3731 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3732 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3733 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3734 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3737 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3738 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3739 been included in previous releases.
3741 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3742 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3744 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3745 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3746 instead of “union wait”.
3748 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3749 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3750 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3751 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3752 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3753 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3754 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3756 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3759 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3760 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3763 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3764 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3765 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3766 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3767 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3770 Security related changes:
3772 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3773 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3774 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3776 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3777 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3778 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3779 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
3781 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3782 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3783 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3785 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3786 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3787 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3789 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3790 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3791 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3792 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3794 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3796 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3797 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3799 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3800 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3801 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3802 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3803 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3804 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3805 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3806 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3808 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3809 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3810 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3811 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3812 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3813 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3815 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3817 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3818 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3819 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3820 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3821 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3822 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3823 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3824 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3825 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3826 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3827 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3829 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3830 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3831 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3832 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3833 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3834 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3836 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3837 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3839 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3840 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3841 Romanian locale data
3842 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3844 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3845 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3847 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3848 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3849 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3850 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3852 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3854 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3855 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3856 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3857 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3858 when using RTLD_NEXT
3859 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3860 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3861 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3862 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3863 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3864 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3865 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3866 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3867 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3869 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3870 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3871 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3872 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3874 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3876 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3878 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3879 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3880 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3881 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3882 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3883 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3885 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3886 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3888 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3889 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3891 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3893 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3895 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3896 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3897 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3898 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3899 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3900 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3901 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3902 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3903 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3904 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3905 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3906 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3907 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3908 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3910 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3912 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3913 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3914 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3915 response to getaddrinfo
3916 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3917 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3918 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3919 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3920 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3921 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3923 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3924 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3925 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3927 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3928 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3929 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3930 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3932 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3933 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3934 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3936 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3937 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3938 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3939 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3940 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3941 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3942 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3943 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3945 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3946 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3947 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3949 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3950 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3951 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3952 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3953 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3954 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3955 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3956 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3957 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3958 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3959 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3960 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3961 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3963 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3964 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3965 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3966 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3968 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3969 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3971 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3972 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3973 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3974 AS not supporting AVX512
3975 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3977 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3978 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3980 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3981 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3982 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3983 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3984 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3986 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3987 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3989 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3990 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3991 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3992 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3993 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3994 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3995 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3996 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3997 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3999 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4000 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4001 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4002 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4003 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4004 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4005 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4006 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4007 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4008 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4009 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4010 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4011 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4013 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4014 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4015 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4016 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4017 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4019 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4020 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4022 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4023 "invalid" exceptions
4024 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4025 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4026 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4027 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4028 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4029 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4030 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4031 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4032 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4036 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4037 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4038 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4039 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4040 89, 16061, and 18568.
4042 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4043 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4044 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4045 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4046 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4047 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4048 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4050 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4051 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4052 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4054 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4055 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4056 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4057 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4058 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4059 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4060 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4062 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4063 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4064 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4065 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4066 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4067 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4068 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4071 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4072 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4073 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4074 independent of the GNU C Library.
4076 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4077 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4079 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4080 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4081 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4082 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4083 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4086 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4087 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4089 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4090 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4091 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4092 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4093 defining their own copy.
4095 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4096 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4097 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4099 Security related changes:
4101 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4102 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4104 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4105 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4106 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4107 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4110 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4111 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4113 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4114 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4116 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4117 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4118 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4120 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4121 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4122 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4123 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4124 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4125 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4126 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4127 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4128 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4129 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4130 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4131 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4132 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4134 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4136 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4137 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4138 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4139 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4140 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4141 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4143 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4144 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4145 overflow/underflow errors
4146 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4148 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4149 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4150 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4151 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4152 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4153 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4155 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4156 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4157 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4158 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4159 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4160 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4161 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4162 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4163 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4165 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4167 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4168 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4169 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4171 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4172 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4173 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4174 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4175 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4177 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4178 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4180 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4181 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4182 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4183 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4184 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4185 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4186 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4187 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4189 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4190 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4191 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4192 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4193 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4195 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4196 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4198 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4199 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4200 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4201 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4202 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4204 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4205 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4206 (related to lock elision)
4207 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4208 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4209 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4210 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4212 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4213 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4214 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4215 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4216 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4217 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4218 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4219 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4220 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4221 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4222 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4223 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4224 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4225 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4226 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4227 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4228 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4229 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4230 contains a vector instruction exception.
4231 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4232 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4234 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4235 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4236 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4237 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4238 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4240 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4242 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4243 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4245 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4246 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4247 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4248 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4249 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4251 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4252 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4253 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4254 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4255 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4256 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4257 statically too large
4258 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4259 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4260 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4261 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4262 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4263 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4264 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4265 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4266 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4268 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4269 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4270 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4271 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4272 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4273 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4274 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4276 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4277 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4278 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4279 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4281 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4282 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4283 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4284 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4285 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4286 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4288 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4289 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4290 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4291 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4292 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4293 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4295 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4296 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4297 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4298 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4299 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4300 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4301 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4302 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4304 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4305 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4306 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4307 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4308 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4309 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4310 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4311 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4312 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4314 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4316 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4317 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4318 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4320 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4321 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4322 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4323 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4324 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4325 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4326 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4327 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4328 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4329 pthread_setaffinity_np
4330 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4331 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4332 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4333 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4334 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4336 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4337 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4338 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4339 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4340 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4341 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4342 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4344 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4345 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4346 for C99-based standards
4347 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4348 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4350 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4351 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4352 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4354 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4355 "inexact" exceptions
4356 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4358 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4359 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4360 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4361 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4363 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4364 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4365 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4366 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4367 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4368 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4369 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4370 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4371 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4372 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4374 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4375 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4376 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4377 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4379 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4380 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4381 error on 32-bit architectures
4382 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4383 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4384 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4385 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4386 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4387 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4388 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4389 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4390 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4392 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4394 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4395 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4396 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4397 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4399 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4403 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4405 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4406 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4407 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4408 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4409 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4410 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4411 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4412 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4413 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4414 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4415 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4416 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4417 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4418 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4419 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4420 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4421 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4422 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4423 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4424 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4426 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4427 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4429 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4430 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4431 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4432 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4433 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4434 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4436 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4437 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4438 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4439 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4440 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4442 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4443 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4444 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4446 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4447 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4448 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4451 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4452 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4453 condition in some applications.
4455 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4456 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4458 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4459 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4460 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4461 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4462 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4464 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4465 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4466 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4467 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4469 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4470 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4471 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4473 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4474 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4476 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4477 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4478 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4480 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4481 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4482 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4486 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4488 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4489 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4490 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4491 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4492 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4493 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4494 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4495 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4496 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4497 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4500 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4501 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4502 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4503 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4506 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4507 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4508 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4509 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4510 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4511 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4513 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4515 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4516 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4517 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4519 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4520 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4521 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4522 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4523 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4524 effects being visible outside transactions.
4526 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4527 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4529 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4531 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4532 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4533 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4534 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4535 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4537 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4538 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4540 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4541 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4544 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4545 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4546 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4548 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4549 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4551 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4553 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4554 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4555 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4556 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4558 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4559 with newer versions of bison.
4561 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4562 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4563 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4564 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4565 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4566 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4567 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4568 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4569 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4570 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4571 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4572 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4573 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4575 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4576 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4577 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4578 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4579 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4583 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4585 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4586 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4587 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4588 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4589 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4590 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4591 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4592 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4593 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4594 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4595 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4596 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4597 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4598 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4599 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4601 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4602 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4603 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4604 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4605 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4606 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4607 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4608 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4609 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4610 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4612 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4613 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4614 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4615 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4616 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4618 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4620 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4621 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4623 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4624 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4625 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4626 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4627 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4628 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4630 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4633 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4634 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4635 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4636 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4637 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4638 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4639 test macros defined.
4641 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4643 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4644 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4645 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4646 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4647 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4648 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4651 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4652 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4653 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4654 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4657 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4658 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4659 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4661 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4662 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4663 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4664 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4666 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4667 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4668 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4669 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4670 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4671 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4672 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4675 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4676 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4677 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4678 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4679 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4680 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4681 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4682 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4683 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4685 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4686 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4687 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4688 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4689 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4690 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4692 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4693 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4694 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4695 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4699 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4701 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4702 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4703 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4704 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4705 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4706 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4707 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4708 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4709 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4710 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
4711 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4712 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4713 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4714 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4715 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
4716 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4717 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4718 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
4720 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4721 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4723 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4724 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4725 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
4726 extension which uses __block.
4728 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4729 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4730 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4731 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4732 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4734 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4735 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4736 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4737 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4740 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4741 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4742 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4743 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4744 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
4746 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4747 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4748 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4750 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4751 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4752 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4755 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4756 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4758 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
4759 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
4761 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4763 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4766 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
4768 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4770 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4771 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4772 for which the C library was built.
4774 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4775 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4776 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4777 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4778 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4779 in the following circumstances:
4781 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4783 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4784 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4786 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4787 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4789 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4790 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
4792 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4794 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4795 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4797 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
4799 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
4801 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
4803 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4804 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4805 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4806 disable some of those declarations.
4808 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
4809 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4810 that did nothing) has also been removed.
4812 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4813 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
4815 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4816 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4817 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4818 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4819 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4820 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4821 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4822 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4823 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4824 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4825 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4826 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4827 require recompilation.
4831 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4833 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
4834 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4835 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
4836 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4837 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4838 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4839 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4840 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4841 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4842 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4843 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4844 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4845 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4848 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4849 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4850 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4851 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4852 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4853 understands and accepts the risks.
4855 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4858 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4859 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
4861 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4862 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4863 destructor calls to glibc.
4865 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4868 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4869 non-x86 architectures.
4871 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4873 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4875 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4878 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4880 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4883 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4884 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4886 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4888 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4889 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4891 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4892 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4894 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4895 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4896 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4898 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4899 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4900 attributes of a process.
4902 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4903 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4904 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4905 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4908 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4909 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4911 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4915 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4917 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4918 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4919 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4920 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4921 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4922 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4923 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4924 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4925 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4926 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4927 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4928 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4929 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4930 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4931 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4933 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4935 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4936 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4938 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4939 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4941 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4943 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4944 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4946 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4948 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4949 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4950 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4952 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4953 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4955 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4956 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4958 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4959 can be used with is 2.6.16.
4961 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4962 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4964 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4965 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
4966 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4967 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
4969 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4970 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4972 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
4973 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
4976 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4977 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4978 information in --help and --version output.
4980 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4981 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4982 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4984 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4985 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4986 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4987 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4988 when the mode is enabled.
4990 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4991 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4992 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4993 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4994 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4995 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4996 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
4998 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5003 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5005 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5006 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5007 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5008 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5009 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5010 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5011 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5012 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5013 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5014 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5015 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5016 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5017 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5018 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5019 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5020 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5021 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5022 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5023 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5024 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5025 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5026 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5029 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5030 configuring glibc with:
5031 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5032 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5033 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5037 + define static_assert
5039 + do not declare gets
5041 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5043 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5044 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5045 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5048 + timespec_get added
5050 + uchar.h support added
5052 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5054 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5056 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5058 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5060 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5061 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5063 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5064 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5066 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5067 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5068 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5069 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5070 existing applications.
5072 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5073 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5076 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5077 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5078 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5080 * New locales: mag_IN
5082 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5083 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5084 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5085 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5086 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5088 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5090 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5093 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5095 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5096 without a previously built glibc.
5098 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5099 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5101 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5102 now supported for ARM processors.
5104 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5105 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5106 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5108 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5110 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5111 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5112 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5113 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5115 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5116 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5117 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5118 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5120 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5121 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5122 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5123 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5124 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5126 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5127 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5128 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5129 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5133 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5135 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5136 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5137 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5138 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5139 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5140 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5141 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5143 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5144 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5146 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5147 and support for initgroups lookups.
5148 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5150 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5151 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5153 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5154 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5156 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5157 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5158 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5160 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5161 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5163 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5164 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5165 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5167 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5168 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5170 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5171 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5173 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5174 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5176 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5177 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5179 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5180 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5182 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5183 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5185 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5187 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5188 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5190 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5191 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5193 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5197 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5199 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5200 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5201 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5202 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5203 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5204 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5205 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5206 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5207 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5208 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5210 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5211 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5212 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5213 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5215 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5216 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5217 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5218 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5220 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5221 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5223 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5224 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5226 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5228 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5229 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5231 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5232 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5233 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5234 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5238 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5240 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5241 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5242 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5243 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5246 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5248 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5250 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5251 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5252 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5256 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5258 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5259 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5260 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5261 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5262 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5263 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5264 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5265 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5267 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5269 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5271 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5273 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5274 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5275 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5277 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5278 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5279 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5280 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5281 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5283 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5287 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5289 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5290 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5291 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5292 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5293 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5294 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5296 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5298 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5300 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5301 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5303 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5304 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5306 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5308 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5309 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5310 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5311 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5313 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5314 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5316 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5318 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5320 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5321 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5323 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5324 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5326 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5327 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5329 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5330 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5331 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5332 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5333 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5334 necessity is every process again.
5335 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5337 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5338 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5340 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5341 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5343 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5344 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5347 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5351 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5353 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5354 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5355 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5356 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5357 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5359 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5360 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5362 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5363 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5365 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5366 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5368 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5371 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5372 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5374 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5375 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5377 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5378 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5380 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5381 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5383 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5384 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5385 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5387 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5389 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5390 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5392 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5393 and extend existing format specifiers.
5394 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5396 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5397 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5399 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5400 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5401 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5402 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5403 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5404 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5408 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5410 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5411 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5412 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5413 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5414 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5416 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5417 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5419 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5420 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5422 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5423 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5425 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5426 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5427 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5429 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5430 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5432 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5434 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5435 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5437 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5438 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5439 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5440 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5442 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5443 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5445 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5447 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5449 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5453 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5455 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5456 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5457 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5458 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5459 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5460 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5461 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5463 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5465 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5467 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5468 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5470 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5472 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5473 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5475 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5476 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5478 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5479 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5480 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5482 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5483 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5485 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5486 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5488 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5491 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
5492 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5496 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5498 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5499 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5500 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5501 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5502 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5504 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5505 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5507 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5509 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5510 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5511 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5513 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5514 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5516 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5517 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5519 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5521 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5522 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5524 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5525 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5527 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5528 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5530 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5532 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5535 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5536 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5539 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5540 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5544 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5546 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5547 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5548 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5549 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5550 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5551 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5552 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5555 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5557 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5559 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5563 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5565 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5566 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5567 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5568 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5569 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5570 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5571 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5572 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5573 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5575 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5576 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5577 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5579 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5580 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5582 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5584 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5586 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5587 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5588 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5589 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5590 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5592 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5593 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5594 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5595 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5597 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5600 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5602 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5605 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5607 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5608 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5612 * More overflow detection functions.
5614 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5615 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5617 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5618 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5619 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5620 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5621 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5622 by Masahide Washizawa.
5624 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5625 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5627 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5628 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5629 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5630 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5632 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5633 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5635 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5637 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5638 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5639 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5641 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5642 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5644 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5645 for compatibility with some other systems.
5647 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5651 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5653 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5654 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5655 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5656 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5657 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5658 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5660 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5662 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5664 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5668 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5670 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5671 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5672 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5673 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5675 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5679 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5680 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5682 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5683 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5684 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5686 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5687 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5689 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5691 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5693 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5694 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5697 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5698 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5699 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5701 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5702 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5704 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5705 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5706 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5707 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5709 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5710 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5711 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
5712 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5714 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5715 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5716 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5717 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5718 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
5722 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5723 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5725 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5726 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
5728 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
5729 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5731 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5732 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5734 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5737 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
5740 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5745 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5746 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5747 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5748 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5749 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5750 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5751 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5752 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5753 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5755 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5756 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5757 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5759 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
5761 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5762 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
5764 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5765 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5767 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
5769 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5770 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
5772 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5773 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5774 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5775 of weak definition in ld.so.
5777 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5778 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5780 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5781 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
5785 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5788 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5789 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
5791 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
5792 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
5794 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5795 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
5797 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
5798 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5799 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5801 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5802 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
5804 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
5805 implementation of regex.
5807 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5810 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5811 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
5813 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5814 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5815 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
5817 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
5818 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
5820 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5821 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5822 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
5824 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5825 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5827 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5828 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5831 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5835 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5836 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5838 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5839 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
5843 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5844 128-bit long double format.
5846 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5847 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
5849 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
5851 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5853 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5856 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5857 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
5859 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
5863 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
5864 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
5866 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5867 support Unicode 3.1.
5869 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5870 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
5872 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
5874 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
5875 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5876 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5878 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5879 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5881 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5882 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5884 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5888 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5889 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5890 in float, double, and long double format.
5892 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5893 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5894 128-bit long double format.
5896 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5897 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5898 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5899 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5901 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5902 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5903 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5905 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5906 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5908 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5909 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5911 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5912 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5913 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5915 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5916 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5918 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5919 of functions for Linux/x86.
5921 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5925 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5926 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5927 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5928 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5929 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5930 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5933 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5934 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5936 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5937 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5938 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5939 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5941 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5946 only lists the names of the supported locales
5950 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5951 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5955 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5956 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5957 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5958 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5959 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5961 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5963 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5965 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
5967 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5968 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5969 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
5971 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5972 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5974 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5975 changed from the default "C" locale.
5977 * The usual bug fixes.
5981 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5982 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5985 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5987 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
5989 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5990 obviously requires a database library being available.
5992 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5994 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
5996 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5997 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5999 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6001 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6002 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6005 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6006 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6007 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6009 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6010 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6012 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6013 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6014 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6016 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6017 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6018 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6019 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6021 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6022 structures for the wide character tables.
6024 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6026 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6028 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6030 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6033 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6035 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6037 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6039 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6041 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6043 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6044 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6045 implemented for Linux.
6047 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6048 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6049 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6052 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6055 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6069 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6071 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6073 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6075 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6077 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6079 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6081 * Update timezone data files.
6083 * lots of charmaps corrections
6085 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6090 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6091 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6092 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6093 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6094 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6095 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6097 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6098 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6100 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6103 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6104 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6106 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6108 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6111 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6113 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6114 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6116 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6119 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6120 functions from ISO C 9X.
6122 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6123 real valued functions.
6125 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6127 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6129 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6131 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6133 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6135 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6137 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6139 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6140 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6142 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6143 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6147 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6149 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6151 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6153 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6155 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6157 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6159 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6160 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6163 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6164 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6166 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6168 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6170 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6171 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6173 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6175 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6178 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6179 latest draft standards.
6181 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6183 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6184 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6185 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6186 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6187 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6188 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6189 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6190 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6191 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6192 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6193 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6194 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6195 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6196 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6197 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6198 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6199 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6200 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6201 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6202 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6204 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6205 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6206 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6207 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6208 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6215 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6216 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6217 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6218 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6219 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6221 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6222 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6223 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6224 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6225 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6226 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6230 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6231 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6237 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6238 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6239 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6240 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6242 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6243 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6244 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6254 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6255 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6257 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6258 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6263 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6264 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6267 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6268 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6272 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6273 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6275 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6276 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6277 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6279 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6280 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6284 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6285 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6289 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6290 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6291 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6292 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6293 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6295 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6296 ferror_locked REMOVED
6297 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6298 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6299 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6300 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6301 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6302 fflush_locked REMOVED
6306 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6307 fileno_locked REMOVED
6319 fputc_locked REMOVED
6320 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6321 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6326 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6330 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6332 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6333 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6337 getchar_locked REMOVED
6339 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6340 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6342 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6343 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6344 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6345 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6346 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6347 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6348 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6349 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6350 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6351 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6352 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6353 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6354 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6355 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6357 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6358 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6359 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6360 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6361 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6362 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6363 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6364 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6365 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6366 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6367 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6368 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6369 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6370 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6371 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6372 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6373 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6374 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6375 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6376 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6377 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6378 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6379 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6380 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6381 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6382 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6387 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6388 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6389 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6390 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6391 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6393 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6394 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6397 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6401 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6402 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6403 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6404 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6405 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6406 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6407 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6408 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6412 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6414 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6415 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6418 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6419 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6420 profil_counter REMOVED
6421 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6422 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6423 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6424 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6426 putchar_locked REMOVED
6427 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6429 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6430 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6434 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6435 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6436 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6437 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6439 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6440 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6442 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6443 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6444 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6446 sendfile NEW: kernel
6447 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6448 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6449 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6451 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6452 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6453 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6454 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6455 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6456 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6457 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6458 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6459 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6463 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6464 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6465 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6466 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6467 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6468 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6469 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6470 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6471 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6472 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6473 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6474 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6475 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6479 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6480 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6482 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6483 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6484 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6485 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6486 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6487 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6489 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6490 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6491 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6492 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6493 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6494 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6495 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6497 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6498 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6499 write_profiling REMOVED
6500 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6501 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6502 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6503 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6504 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6505 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6506 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6507 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6508 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6509 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6510 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6511 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6512 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6513 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6514 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6515 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6526 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6528 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6530 * rewrite of cbrt function
6532 * update of timezone data
6546 * add atoll function
6548 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6550 * fix math functions
6554 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6556 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6558 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6559 the ELF dynamic loader.
6561 * support for parallel builds is improved
6565 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6566 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6569 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6570 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6571 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6572 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6573 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6574 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6575 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6576 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6577 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6578 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6579 files in the ELF format.
6581 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6582 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6584 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6585 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6586 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6587 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6588 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6589 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6590 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6591 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6592 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6593 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6594 about dynamically linked binaries.
6596 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6597 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6598 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6599 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6600 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6602 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6603 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6604 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6605 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6606 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6608 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6610 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6611 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6612 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6613 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6614 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6615 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6616 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6617 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6618 NSS services available.
6620 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6621 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6622 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6624 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6625 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6626 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6628 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6629 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6630 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6631 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6633 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6634 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6635 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6637 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6638 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6639 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6641 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6642 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6644 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6645 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6646 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6647 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6649 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6650 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6651 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6653 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6654 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6655 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6656 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6657 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6658 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6659 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6660 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6662 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6663 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6664 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6665 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6666 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6667 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6668 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6670 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6671 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6672 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6673 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6674 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6675 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6677 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6678 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6680 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6681 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6682 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6684 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6686 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6687 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6688 their use is discouraged.
6690 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6691 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6693 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6694 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6696 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6697 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6699 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6702 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6703 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6704 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6705 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6706 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6708 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6709 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6710 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6711 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
6713 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6714 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6716 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6717 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6718 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6719 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6722 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6723 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6725 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6726 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6728 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
6729 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
6730 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6731 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
6733 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6735 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6736 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6737 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6739 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6740 for arithmetic and string handling.
6742 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
6743 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6744 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6745 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6747 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6748 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6749 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6750 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6751 programs already written to use it.)
6753 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6756 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6759 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6760 a given effective group ID.
6762 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6763 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6764 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6765 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6767 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6768 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
6769 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6770 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6771 doing the same thing.
6773 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6774 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6776 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
6777 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
6779 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6781 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6782 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6783 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6784 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
6785 `-ldb' to get these functions.
6787 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6788 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
6790 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
6791 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6792 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6795 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6797 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6798 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6801 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6802 and writing the utmp file.
6804 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6807 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6808 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6809 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6811 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6812 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6814 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6815 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6818 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6819 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6820 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6821 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6823 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6824 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6825 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6827 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6828 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6829 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6832 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6835 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6838 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6840 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6841 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6842 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
6846 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6848 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6849 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6851 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6852 want to put themselves in the background.
6854 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6855 run without an operating system.
6857 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6858 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6860 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6861 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6863 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6865 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6866 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6869 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6872 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6873 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6877 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6878 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6879 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6881 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6882 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6884 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6885 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6887 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6889 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6891 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6894 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6895 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6896 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6898 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6900 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6901 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6902 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6904 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6905 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6906 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6907 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6908 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6911 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6912 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6913 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6914 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6915 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6918 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6919 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6923 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6924 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6926 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6927 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6928 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6930 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6931 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6932 address of the last character written.
6934 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6935 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6937 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6938 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6940 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6941 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6942 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6943 you dereference this pointer.
6945 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6946 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6948 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6949 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6950 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6951 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6953 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6954 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6955 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6956 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6960 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6961 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6962 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6963 in Emacs or the `info' program.
6964 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
6966 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6968 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6970 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6971 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6973 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6974 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6976 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6977 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6979 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6980 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6981 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6982 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6983 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6985 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6986 to the error code in `errno'.
6988 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6989 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6990 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6993 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6994 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6995 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6997 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6998 uniquely-named temporary file.
7002 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7003 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7004 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7006 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7009 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7010 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7012 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7016 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7017 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7018 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7019 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7021 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7022 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7023 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7025 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7026 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7028 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7029 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7030 made itself into a shared library.
7032 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7033 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7035 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7036 with limited length.
7038 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7040 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7042 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7044 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7045 function for traversing a directory tree.
7047 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7048 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7049 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7050 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7052 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7053 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7055 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7057 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7058 things to your strings.
7060 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7062 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7063 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7064 supporting those systems.
7066 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7067 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7068 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7069 configuration files.
7071 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7072 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7074 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7075 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7078 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7079 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7080 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7081 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7082 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7083 required storage is not available.
7085 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7086 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7088 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7089 latest files released from Berkeley.
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7100 of this document, or of portions of it,
7101 under the above conditions, provided also that they
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