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12 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
13 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
14 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
15 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
16 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
17 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
18 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
19 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
20 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
21 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
22 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
24 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
27 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
28 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
29 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
30 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
31 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
32 specified in draft ISO C2X.
34 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
35 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
37 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
38 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
42 * Added libmvec vector math library support to AArch64. It requires
43 GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via --disable-mathvec,
44 however that is not a supported configuration as it changes the ABI.
45 The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI, they are declared
46 in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
48 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
49 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
51 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
52 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
53 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
54 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
55 original behavior unchanged.
57 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
59 * libcrypt is no longer built by default, one may use the --enable-crypt
60 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
61 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
62 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
64 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
65 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
66 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
67 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
68 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
69 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
71 * The --disable-experimental-malloc is no longer available. The per-thread
72 cache can still be disable per-application using tunables
73 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
75 * The configure option --enable-tunables has been removed. The tunable
76 feature is now always enabled.
78 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
80 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
82 Security related changes:
84 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
85 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
86 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
87 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
88 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
89 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
91 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
93 [The release manager will add the list generated by
94 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
100 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
101 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
102 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
103 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
105 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
107 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
108 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
109 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
110 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
112 Security related changes:
114 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
115 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
116 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
117 portion of the contents of the heap.
119 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
121 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
122 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
123 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
124 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
125 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
126 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
127 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
129 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
130 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
132 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
133 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
134 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
135 gethostbyname and other functions
136 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
137 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
138 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
140 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
141 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
143 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
144 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
146 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
148 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
149 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
150 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
151 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
152 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
153 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
154 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
156 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
157 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
159 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
161 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
163 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
164 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
165 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
166 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
167 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
169 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
170 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
171 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
172 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
174 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
176 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
177 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
178 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
180 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
182 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
184 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
185 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
186 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
187 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
188 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
189 aux.S: No such file or directory)
190 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
191 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
192 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
193 coincides with offset change
194 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
195 length in fortify mode
201 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
202 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
203 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
204 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
205 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
206 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
208 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
209 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
210 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
212 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
213 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
216 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
217 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
218 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
219 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
221 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
222 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
223 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
224 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
225 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
226 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
227 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
228 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
229 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
230 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
231 validation by applications.
233 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
234 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
235 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
236 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
239 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
240 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
241 unpredictable output.
243 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
244 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
245 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
246 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
247 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
248 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
249 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
250 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
252 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
253 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
254 quality randomness from the kernel.
256 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
257 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
260 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
262 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
264 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
266 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
267 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
268 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
270 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
271 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
272 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
273 when libc.so is issued directly.
275 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
277 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
279 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
280 return different result with versioned "foo"
281 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
283 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
284 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
285 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
287 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
288 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
289 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
291 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
293 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
295 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
296 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
297 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
298 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
299 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
300 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
301 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
303 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
305 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
306 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
307 (breaks test isolation)
308 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
309 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
310 __convert_scm_timestamps
311 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
312 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
313 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
315 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
316 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
317 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
318 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
319 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
320 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
321 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
323 [28936] build: nm: No such file
324 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
325 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
327 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
329 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
330 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
331 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
333 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
335 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
336 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
337 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
338 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
339 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
340 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
341 is promoted to global scope
342 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
343 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
344 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
346 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
348 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
350 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
351 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
352 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
353 before '__fortified_attr_access'
354 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
355 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
356 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
357 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
358 value for filling after \0
359 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
360 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
361 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
363 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
364 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
365 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
366 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
367 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
368 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
369 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
371 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
372 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
373 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
374 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
375 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
376 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
377 missing on microblaze with largefile
383 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
384 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
385 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
387 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
388 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
390 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
391 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
392 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
393 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
394 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
395 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
396 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
397 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
398 glibc, and must be installed.
400 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
401 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
402 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
404 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
405 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
407 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
410 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
411 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
412 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
413 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
414 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
415 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
417 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
418 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
419 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
422 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
423 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
425 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
428 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
430 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
431 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
432 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
434 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
435 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
436 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
437 object dependency cases.
439 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
440 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
441 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
442 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
444 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
445 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
446 return value is only used for its boolean status.
448 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
449 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
450 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
451 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
452 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
453 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
454 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
455 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
456 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
457 Restartable Sequences.
459 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
460 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
462 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
463 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
464 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
465 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
466 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
467 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
468 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
471 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
472 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
473 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
474 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
475 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
478 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
479 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
481 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
482 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
485 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
486 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
491 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
492 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
494 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
495 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
496 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
497 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
498 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
500 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
501 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
503 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
504 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
505 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
507 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
508 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
509 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
510 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
513 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
514 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
516 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
518 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
519 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
520 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
522 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
523 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
525 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
526 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
528 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
530 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
532 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
533 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
534 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
536 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
537 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
538 catching coredumps and backtraces.
540 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
541 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
542 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
544 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
545 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
546 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
548 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
549 support prelink PIE binaries.
551 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
553 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
554 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
555 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
556 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
557 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
559 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
560 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
561 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
562 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
564 Security related changes:
566 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
567 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
568 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
570 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
571 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
573 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
574 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
575 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
577 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
578 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
579 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
580 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
581 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
583 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
585 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
586 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
587 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
588 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
590 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
591 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
593 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
595 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
596 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
597 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
598 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
599 ID whose lifetime has not ended
600 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
602 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
604 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
605 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
606 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
607 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
608 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
609 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
610 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
611 --enable-initfini-array
612 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
613 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
614 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
615 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
616 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
617 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
619 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
620 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
621 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
623 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
624 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
625 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
627 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
628 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
630 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
631 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
632 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
634 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
635 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
636 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
637 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
638 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
639 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
640 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
642 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
644 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
645 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
647 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
648 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
649 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
650 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
651 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
652 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
653 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
655 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
657 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
658 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
659 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
660 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
662 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
663 systems with TIMESIZE=64
664 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
665 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
666 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
667 spurious NUL character on state reset
668 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
670 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
671 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
673 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
674 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
676 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
677 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
678 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
679 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
680 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
681 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
683 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
685 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
686 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
687 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
688 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
690 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
691 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
692 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
693 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
694 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
695 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
696 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
697 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
698 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
699 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
700 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
701 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
702 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
703 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
705 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
707 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
708 results (CVE-2021-3998)
709 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
711 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
712 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
714 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
716 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
717 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
718 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
725 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
726 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
727 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
728 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
729 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
730 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
731 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
732 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
733 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
734 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
735 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
736 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
737 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
738 potentially exposing application bugs.
740 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
741 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
742 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
743 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
745 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
746 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
747 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
748 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
749 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
752 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
753 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
754 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
756 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
757 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
758 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
759 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
761 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
763 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
764 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
765 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
766 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
767 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
769 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
770 --disable-scv configure option.
772 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
773 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
774 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
775 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
776 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
777 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
780 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
781 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
782 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
783 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
784 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
785 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
788 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
789 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
791 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
792 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
793 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
794 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
795 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
796 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
797 is currently a GNU extension.
799 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
800 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
802 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
803 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
804 although it is also present in other systems.
806 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
807 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
808 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
809 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
811 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
812 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
813 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
815 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
817 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
818 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
821 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
822 programs should use the equivalent standard function
823 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
825 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
826 programs should use the equivalent standard function
827 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
829 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
830 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
832 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
834 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
835 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
836 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
837 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
838 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
839 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
840 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
841 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
842 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
843 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
844 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
846 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
847 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
848 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
849 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
850 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
851 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
852 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
853 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
855 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
856 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
857 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
858 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
859 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
860 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
861 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
863 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
864 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
865 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
866 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
867 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
868 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
869 upgrade or downgrade process.
871 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
872 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
873 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
875 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
876 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
877 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
878 no longer have any effect on malloc.
880 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
881 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
882 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
883 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
884 this functionality back.
886 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
887 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
888 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
889 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
891 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
892 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
893 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
894 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
895 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
896 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
897 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
898 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
899 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
901 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
903 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
904 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
905 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
906 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
908 Security related changes:
910 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
911 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
912 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
913 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
915 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
916 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
917 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
919 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
920 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
921 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
923 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
925 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
926 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
927 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
928 given integer (closefrom)
929 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
930 name containing multi-byte character(s)
931 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
932 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
933 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
934 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
935 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
937 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
938 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
939 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
940 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
941 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
942 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
943 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
945 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
946 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
947 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
948 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
949 pthread_create and dlopen
950 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
951 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
952 when non-root user changes priority
953 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
955 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
956 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
957 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
959 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
960 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
962 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
963 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
964 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
965 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
967 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
968 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
969 the right free implementation
970 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
971 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
972 shm_open to pick wrong directory
973 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
974 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
976 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
977 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
978 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
979 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
980 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
981 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
982 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
984 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
985 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
987 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
988 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
989 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
990 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
991 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
992 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
994 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
995 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
996 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
997 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
998 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
999 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1000 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1001 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1003 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1004 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1006 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1007 information for the current directory
1008 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1009 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1010 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1011 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1012 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1014 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1015 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1016 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1017 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1019 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1020 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1021 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1022 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1023 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1024 tries resolving them lazily
1025 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1027 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1028 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1030 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1031 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1032 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1034 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1036 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1037 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1038 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1040 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1041 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1042 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1043 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1044 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1045 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1046 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1047 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1048 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1049 with n >= 0x80000000
1050 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1051 thread never allocated anything
1052 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1053 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1054 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1055 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1056 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1058 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1059 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1060 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1062 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1070 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1071 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1072 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1074 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1075 to change argv[0] string.
1077 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1078 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1079 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1080 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1081 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1082 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1083 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1084 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1085 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1087 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1088 information and library search path diagnostics.
1090 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1091 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1092 larger than fit in an integer.
1094 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1096 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1097 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1103 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1106 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1107 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1108 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1109 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1112 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1114 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1117 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1118 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1119 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1121 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1122 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1123 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1126 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1127 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1128 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1130 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1131 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1132 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1133 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1134 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1135 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1137 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1138 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1139 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1140 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1141 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1142 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1145 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1147 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1148 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1149 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1150 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1151 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1152 perform any adjustments.
1154 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1155 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1156 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1157 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1159 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1161 Security related changes:
1163 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1164 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1165 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1166 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1167 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1169 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1170 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1171 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1173 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1174 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1176 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1177 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1179 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1181 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1182 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1183 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1184 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1186 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1187 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1188 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1189 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1190 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1192 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1194 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1196 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1197 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1198 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1199 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1200 changing gnuc version
1201 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1203 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1205 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1206 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1207 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1208 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1209 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1210 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1211 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1212 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1213 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1214 too much stack space
1215 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1216 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1217 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1219 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1221 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1222 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1224 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1225 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1226 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1227 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1228 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1230 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1231 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1232 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1234 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1235 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1236 at the end of a memory mapping
1237 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1238 by the caller to the kernel
1239 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1240 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1241 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1242 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1244 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1245 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1246 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1247 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1248 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1249 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1250 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1252 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1253 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1254 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1255 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1257 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1259 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1261 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1262 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1263 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1264 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1266 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1268 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1269 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1270 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1272 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1274 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1276 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1278 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1279 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1280 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1281 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1283 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1285 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1287 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1288 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1289 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1291 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1292 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1293 [27177] dynamic-link:
1294 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1296 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1297 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1298 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1299 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1306 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1307 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1308 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1310 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1312 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1313 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1314 Three ABIs are supported:
1320 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1321 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1323 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1324 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1326 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1327 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1328 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1331 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1332 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1333 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1335 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1336 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1337 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1339 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1340 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1341 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1342 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1345 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1346 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1347 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1348 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1349 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1350 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1352 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1353 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1355 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1356 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1357 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1358 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1359 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1360 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1362 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1363 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1365 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1366 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1367 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1368 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1369 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1370 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1371 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1372 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1373 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1374 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1375 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1378 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1380 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1381 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1382 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1383 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1384 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1385 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1386 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1388 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1389 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1390 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1391 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1392 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1393 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1394 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1395 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1396 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1398 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1399 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1400 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1401 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1402 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1404 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1405 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1406 was not declared in any header file.
1408 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1409 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1410 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1411 sigaction functions instead.
1413 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1414 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1416 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1417 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1418 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1419 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1422 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1423 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1424 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1425 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1426 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1428 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1429 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1430 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1431 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1433 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1434 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1435 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1436 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1437 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1438 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1439 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1441 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1442 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1443 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1444 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1445 flavor of secure RPC.)
1447 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1448 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1449 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1450 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1451 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1452 object, to enable the hooks.
1454 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1455 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1456 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1459 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1461 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1462 long double redirects.
1464 Security related changes:
1466 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1467 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1468 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1470 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1471 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1472 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1474 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1475 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1477 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1478 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1479 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1482 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1484 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1485 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1486 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1487 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1488 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1489 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1490 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1491 filtee has constructor
1492 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1493 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1494 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1495 character entities for infinity & pi
1496 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1497 segfaults in applications
1498 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1499 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1500 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1501 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1502 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1503 function with -mlong-double-64
1504 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1506 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1508 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1509 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1510 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1511 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1512 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1513 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1515 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1516 dynamically loaded dsos
1517 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1518 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1520 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1521 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1522 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1523 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1524 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1525 stale configuration forever
1526 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1528 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1530 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1531 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1533 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1534 on 32 bit and old kernel
1535 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1536 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1538 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1539 amount of sigset_t bytes
1540 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1542 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1543 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1544 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1545 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1546 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1547 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1548 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1549 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1550 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1551 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1553 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1554 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1555 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1556 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1557 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1558 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1559 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1561 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1562 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1564 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1565 exiting detached thread
1566 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1568 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1570 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1571 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1572 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1573 dependencies in audit mode
1574 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1575 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1576 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1577 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1578 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1580 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1581 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1583 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1584 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1586 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1587 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1588 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1589 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1590 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1591 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1592 corruption in memset
1599 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1600 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1601 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1602 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1603 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1604 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1606 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1607 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1608 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1609 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1611 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1612 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1613 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1615 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1617 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1618 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1619 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1620 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1621 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1622 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1623 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1624 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1626 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1628 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1629 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1630 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1631 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1632 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1633 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1635 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1636 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1637 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1639 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1640 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1641 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1642 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1644 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1645 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1646 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1647 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1648 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1649 made this no longer practical.
1651 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1652 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1653 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1654 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1657 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1658 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1659 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1661 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1662 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1663 using clock_gettime instead.
1665 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1666 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1667 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1668 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1669 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1671 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1672 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1673 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1674 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1676 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1677 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1678 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1679 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1680 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1681 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1683 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1684 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1685 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1686 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1689 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1690 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1691 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1693 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1696 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1697 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1698 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1699 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1700 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1702 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1703 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1704 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1705 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1706 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1707 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1708 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1709 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1711 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1712 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1714 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1715 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1716 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1717 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1718 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1719 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1721 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1723 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1724 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1725 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1727 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1728 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1729 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1731 Security related changes:
1733 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1734 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1736 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1737 environment variable during program execution after a security
1738 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1739 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1740 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1742 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1744 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1745 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1746 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1747 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1748 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1749 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1750 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1751 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1753 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1754 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1755 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1756 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1757 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1758 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1759 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1760 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1761 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1762 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1764 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1766 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1767 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1768 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1769 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1770 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1771 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1772 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1774 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1776 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1777 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1778 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1779 (stringop-overflow error)
1780 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1781 functions other can lead to crashes
1782 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1783 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1785 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1786 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1787 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1788 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1789 still can fail with an error
1790 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1791 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1792 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1793 initialized correctly
1794 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1796 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1797 value to an unsigned
1798 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1799 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1800 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1802 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1804 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1806 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1808 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1809 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1810 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1812 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1813 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1815 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1816 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1817 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1818 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1819 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1820 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1827 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1828 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1829 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1831 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1832 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1834 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1835 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1836 to the callback function.
1838 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1840 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1841 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1844 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1846 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1847 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1848 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1849 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1850 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1852 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1853 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1854 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1855 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1856 link time reference, is gone.
1858 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1859 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1860 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1861 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1862 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1863 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1864 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1865 the clock choice at initialization time).
1867 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1868 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1869 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1871 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1873 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1874 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1875 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1876 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1877 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1878 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1879 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1880 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1881 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1883 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1884 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1885 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1886 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1889 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1890 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1892 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1893 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1895 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1896 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1898 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1901 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1902 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1903 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1905 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1906 header have been removed.
1908 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1909 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1910 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1911 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1913 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1915 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1917 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1918 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1920 Security related changes:
1922 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1923 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1924 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1925 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1926 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1927 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1928 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1930 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1931 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1932 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1934 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1936 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1937 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1938 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1939 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1940 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1941 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1942 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1943 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1944 invalid input drops valid char
1945 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1946 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1947 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1948 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1949 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1951 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1952 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1953 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1954 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1956 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1957 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1958 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1959 for long double = double
1960 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1961 long double = double
1962 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1963 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1964 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1966 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1967 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1969 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1970 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1971 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1972 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1973 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1974 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1975 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1976 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1977 not the default "nor"
1978 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1979 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1980 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1981 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1983 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1984 unnecessary librt dependencies
1985 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1986 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1987 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1988 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1990 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1991 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1993 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1994 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1995 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1996 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1997 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1998 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1999 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2000 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2001 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2002 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2003 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2004 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2006 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2008 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2009 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2011 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2012 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2013 kernels and break testing
2014 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2015 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2016 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2017 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2018 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2019 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2020 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2022 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2023 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2025 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2027 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2028 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2029 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2030 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2031 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2032 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2033 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2034 always implemented in the same library
2035 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2036 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2037 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2045 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2046 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2048 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2049 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2050 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2051 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2052 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2053 configured location.
2055 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2057 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2058 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2060 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2061 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2062 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2063 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2064 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2065 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2066 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2067 process actually does not use HTM).
2069 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2070 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2071 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2072 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2073 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2076 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2077 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2078 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2079 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2080 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2082 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2083 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2085 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2086 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2088 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2089 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2090 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2091 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2092 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2093 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2094 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2096 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2097 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2098 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2100 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2102 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2103 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2105 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2106 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2107 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2108 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2110 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2111 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2112 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2113 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2116 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2117 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2118 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2119 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2120 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2121 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2123 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2124 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2125 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2126 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2127 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2129 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2130 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2131 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2133 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2135 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2137 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2138 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2140 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2141 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2143 Security related changes:
2145 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2146 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2147 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2149 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2150 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2151 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2152 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2153 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2155 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2156 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2157 or command injection issues in applications.
2159 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2161 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2162 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2163 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2165 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2166 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2167 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2169 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2170 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2171 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2172 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2173 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2174 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2175 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2176 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2177 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2178 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2179 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2180 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2181 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2182 pointer argument is non-NULL
2183 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2184 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2185 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2186 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2187 multithreads call popen
2188 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2189 and pthread_create fails.
2190 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2191 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2193 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2194 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2195 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2197 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2199 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2201 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2202 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2204 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2205 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2206 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2207 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2208 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2209 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2210 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2212 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2213 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2214 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2216 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2217 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2218 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2219 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2221 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2223 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2224 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2225 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2226 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2228 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2230 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2231 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2232 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2234 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2235 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2236 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2237 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2238 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2239 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2241 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2242 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2243 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2244 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2245 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2246 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2247 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2248 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2249 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2250 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2251 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2252 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2253 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2254 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2256 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2257 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2258 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2259 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2260 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2262 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2263 nearest rounding mode
2264 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2265 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2266 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2267 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2268 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2269 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2270 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2271 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2272 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2274 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2275 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2277 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2278 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2279 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2280 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2282 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2284 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2286 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2288 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2289 answers will be rejected)
2290 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2297 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2298 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2299 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2300 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2301 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2302 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2303 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2304 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2305 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2306 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2307 archive or binary locales.
2309 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2310 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2311 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2312 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2313 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2314 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2315 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2316 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2317 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2318 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2319 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2322 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2323 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2324 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2325 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2326 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2327 field) to indicate such support is required.
2329 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2330 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2331 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2333 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2334 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2336 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2337 fMxaddfNx functions.
2339 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2340 fMxsubfNx functions.
2342 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2343 fMxmulfNx functions.
2345 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2346 fMxdivfNx functions.
2348 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2349 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2350 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2351 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2354 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2355 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2357 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2360 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2361 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2362 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2363 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2364 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2365 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2366 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2367 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2369 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2370 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2371 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2372 the fstatat64 function.
2374 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2375 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2376 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2377 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2378 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2379 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2380 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2381 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2382 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2384 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2385 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2386 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2387 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2388 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2389 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2390 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2391 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2392 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2393 results in a load failure now.
2395 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2396 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2399 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2400 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2402 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2403 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2405 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2407 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2408 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2410 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2412 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2414 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2416 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2417 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2418 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2420 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2421 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2422 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2423 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2424 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2425 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2427 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2428 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2429 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2430 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2431 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2432 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2435 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2436 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2437 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2438 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2439 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2440 further explanation.
2442 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2443 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2444 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2446 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2448 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2449 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2450 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2452 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2453 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2454 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2455 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2457 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2458 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2459 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2460 for this function instead.
2462 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2463 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2464 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2466 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2467 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2468 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2469 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2471 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2472 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2473 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2474 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2475 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2477 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2478 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2479 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2480 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2481 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2482 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2485 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2486 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2487 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2490 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2491 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2492 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2494 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2495 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2496 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2497 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2498 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2499 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2501 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2502 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2503 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2504 behavior in a future release.
2506 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2508 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2510 Security related changes:
2512 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2513 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2514 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2515 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2517 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2518 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2520 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2521 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2524 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2525 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2526 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2528 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2530 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2531 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2532 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2533 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2534 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2535 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2536 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2537 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2538 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2540 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2541 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2542 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2543 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2544 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2546 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2548 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2549 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2550 scope with -O1 and higher
2551 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2552 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2553 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2554 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2555 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2556 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2557 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2558 horrible machine code)
2559 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2561 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2562 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2564 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2565 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2567 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2568 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2569 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2570 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2571 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2573 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2574 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2575 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2576 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2577 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2579 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2580 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2581 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2583 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2584 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2585 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2586 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2587 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2588 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2589 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2590 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2591 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2592 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2593 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2594 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2595 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2597 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2599 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2600 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2601 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2602 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2603 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2604 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2605 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2606 for Spanish with CLDR
2607 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2608 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2609 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2610 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2611 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2612 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2614 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2616 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2617 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2618 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2619 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2621 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2622 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2623 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2624 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2625 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2626 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2627 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2628 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2629 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2630 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2631 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2632 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2633 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2634 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2635 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2636 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2637 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2639 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2640 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2642 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2643 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2644 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2645 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2646 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2647 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2649 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2651 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2652 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2653 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2654 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2655 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2656 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2657 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2658 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2659 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2660 and libc build with -Os)
2661 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2662 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2663 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2664 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2665 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2666 that changes /etc/passwd
2667 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2669 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2670 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2671 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2673 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2674 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2675 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2676 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2677 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2679 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2680 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2682 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2683 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2684 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2685 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2687 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2688 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2689 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2690 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2692 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2694 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2696 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2698 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2700 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2701 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2702 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2703 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2704 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2705 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2706 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2707 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2709 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2716 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2717 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2718 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2719 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2720 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2721 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2722 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2723 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2724 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2726 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2727 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2730 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2732 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2734 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2735 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2736 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2737 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2738 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2739 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2740 from a security and performance perspective.
2742 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2743 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2744 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2745 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2747 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2748 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2749 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2750 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2751 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2753 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2754 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2755 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2756 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2759 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2760 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2761 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2763 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2765 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2766 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2769 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2771 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2773 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2774 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2775 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2777 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2778 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2779 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2780 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2781 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2782 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2783 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2785 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2786 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2787 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2788 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2789 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2790 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2791 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2793 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2794 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2795 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2796 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2799 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2800 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2801 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2802 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2804 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2805 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2806 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2808 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2809 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2810 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2812 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2813 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2814 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2820 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2822 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2823 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2824 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2825 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2826 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2827 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2828 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2829 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2830 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2833 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2834 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2835 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2837 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2838 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2839 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2840 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2841 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2842 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2843 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2844 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2845 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2846 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2847 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2848 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2849 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2850 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2851 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2852 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2853 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2854 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2855 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2856 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2857 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2858 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2859 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2860 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2861 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2862 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2864 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2865 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2867 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2868 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2869 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2870 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2871 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2872 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2873 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2875 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2876 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2877 exp10l for these functions instead.
2879 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2880 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2881 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2883 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2884 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2887 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2888 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2889 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2890 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2892 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2893 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2895 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2896 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2898 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2901 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2903 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2904 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2905 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2908 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2909 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2910 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2911 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2912 use, but predates the bits convention.
2914 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2916 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2919 Security related changes:
2921 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2922 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2923 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2924 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2927 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2928 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2929 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2930 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2932 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2933 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2934 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2937 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2938 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2939 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2941 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2942 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2943 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2944 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2946 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2947 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2948 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2951 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2952 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2953 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2954 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2955 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2957 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2958 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2961 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2962 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2963 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2965 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2966 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2967 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2969 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2970 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2971 small, instead of NULL.
2973 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2975 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2976 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2977 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2979 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2980 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2981 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2983 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2984 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2985 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2986 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2987 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2988 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2989 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2990 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2991 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2993 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2994 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2995 width Latin characters
2996 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2997 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2998 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3000 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3001 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3003 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3004 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3005 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3006 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3007 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3009 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3010 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3011 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3012 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3013 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3014 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3015 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3016 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3017 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3018 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3020 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3021 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3022 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3023 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3024 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3025 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3026 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3027 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3029 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3030 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3032 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3033 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3035 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3036 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3037 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3038 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3039 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3040 __regcall calling convention
3041 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3042 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3043 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3044 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3045 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3046 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3047 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3048 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3049 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3050 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3051 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3052 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3053 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3055 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3057 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3059 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3060 consistency check failures
3061 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3062 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3063 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3064 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3066 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3068 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3069 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3070 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3071 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3072 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3073 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3074 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3075 on memory allocation failure
3076 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3077 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3079 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3081 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3082 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3083 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3084 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3085 instead of EAI_NODATA
3086 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3087 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3088 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3089 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3091 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3092 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3093 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3094 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3095 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3096 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3097 allocation in syscall loops)
3098 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3099 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3100 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3101 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3102 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3103 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3104 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3105 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3106 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3108 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3109 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3110 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3112 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3113 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3115 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3117 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3118 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3119 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3120 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3121 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3122 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3123 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3124 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3125 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3126 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3127 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3128 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3129 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3130 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3131 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3132 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3133 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3134 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3136 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3138 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3139 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3141 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3142 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3143 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3144 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3146 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3147 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3148 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3149 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3150 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3151 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3152 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3153 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3154 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3155 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3156 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3158 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3159 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3160 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3161 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3162 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3163 the svid compat wrapper
3164 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3165 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3166 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3167 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3168 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3169 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3171 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3172 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3174 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3175 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3176 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3177 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3178 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3179 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3181 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3182 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3183 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3184 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3186 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3187 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3189 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3190 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3191 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3192 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3193 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3194 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3195 inside the ASCII printable range
3196 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3198 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3199 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3200 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3202 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3203 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3205 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3206 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3207 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3209 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3210 networking interface
3211 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3212 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3213 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3214 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3215 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3216 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3217 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3218 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3219 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3221 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3222 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3223 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3224 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3225 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3226 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3227 same as for Croatian
3228 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3229 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3230 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3232 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3234 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3235 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3236 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3237 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3238 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3240 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3241 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3242 modified in case of success
3243 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3244 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3246 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3248 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3249 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3250 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3251 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3252 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3253 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3254 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3255 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3257 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3258 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3259 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3260 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3261 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3262 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3263 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3264 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3265 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3267 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3268 elision and tunables
3269 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3271 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3272 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3273 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3275 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3276 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3278 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3279 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3280 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3281 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3282 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3283 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3284 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3285 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3286 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3293 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3294 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3295 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3296 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3297 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3298 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3299 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3301 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3302 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3303 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3304 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3305 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3306 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3307 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3309 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3310 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3313 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3315 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3316 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3317 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3319 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3320 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3321 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3322 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3323 object are still limited to six search domains.
3325 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3326 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3327 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3329 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3330 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3332 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3333 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3334 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3335 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3337 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3338 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3339 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3340 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3342 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3343 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3344 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3345 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3347 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3348 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3349 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3351 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3352 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3353 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3354 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3356 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3357 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3358 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3359 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3360 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3362 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3363 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3364 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3365 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3366 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3367 interfaces should be used instead.
3369 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3371 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3372 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3373 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3374 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3375 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3376 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3377 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3378 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3380 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3383 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3384 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3385 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3386 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3388 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3389 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3392 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3393 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3394 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3395 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3396 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3398 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3399 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3400 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3401 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3403 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3404 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3405 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3406 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3408 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3409 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3411 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3412 exported by accident.
3414 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3415 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3416 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3418 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3419 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3420 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3421 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3423 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3425 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3427 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3430 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3431 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3433 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3434 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3436 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3437 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3438 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3439 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3440 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3441 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3442 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3443 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3445 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3446 synced with the kernel:
3448 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3449 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3451 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3452 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3453 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3455 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3456 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3458 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3460 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3461 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3464 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3466 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3467 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3469 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3470 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3471 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3472 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3473 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3475 Security related changes:
3477 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3478 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3480 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3481 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3483 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3484 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3487 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3488 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3490 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3492 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3493 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3494 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3496 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3498 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3499 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3500 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3502 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3503 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3504 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3505 x86 and other generic code
3506 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3507 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3509 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3510 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3511 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3512 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3513 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3514 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3515 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3517 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3518 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3519 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3520 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3522 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3523 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3525 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3527 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3528 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3529 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3531 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3532 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3533 failures consistently
3534 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3535 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3536 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3537 frame-pointer on i386
3538 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3540 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3541 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3542 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3543 generic c code is used
3544 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3545 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3547 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3549 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3550 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3552 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3553 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3554 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3555 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3556 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3557 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3558 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3559 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3560 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3561 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3563 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3565 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3566 new posix_spawn implementation
3567 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3568 leads to lower CPU frequency
3569 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3570 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3571 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3572 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3573 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3574 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3575 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3576 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3577 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3578 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3579 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3580 not support gethostbyname4_r
3581 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3583 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3585 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3586 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3587 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3588 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3589 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3590 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3591 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3593 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3594 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3595 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3596 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3597 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3598 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3599 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3600 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3601 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3602 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3603 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3604 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3606 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3607 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3608 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3609 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3610 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3611 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3612 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3613 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3615 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3616 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3617 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3618 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3619 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3620 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3621 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3622 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3623 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3624 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3625 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3626 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3627 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3628 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3629 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3630 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3631 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3632 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3633 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3634 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3635 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3637 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3638 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3639 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3640 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3641 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3643 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3644 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3646 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3647 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3649 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3650 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3652 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3653 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3654 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3655 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3657 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3658 leading to relocation crash
3659 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3660 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3661 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3662 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3663 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3664 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3665 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3666 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3667 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3669 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3671 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3672 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3673 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3674 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3675 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3676 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3677 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3678 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3680 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3682 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3684 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3685 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3686 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3687 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3688 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3689 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3690 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3691 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3692 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3693 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3694 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3695 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3696 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3697 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3698 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3699 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3700 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3701 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3702 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3703 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3704 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3705 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3706 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3707 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3708 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3709 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3710 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3712 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3713 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3714 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3715 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3716 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3721 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3722 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3723 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3726 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3727 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3728 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3731 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3732 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3733 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3736 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3737 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3738 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3739 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3740 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3741 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3742 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3745 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3746 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3749 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3750 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3751 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3753 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3754 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3755 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3756 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3759 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3760 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3761 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3763 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3764 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3765 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3766 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3767 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3768 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3769 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3770 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3771 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3772 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3773 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3776 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3778 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3780 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3781 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3782 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3784 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3785 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3787 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3790 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3792 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3794 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3795 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3797 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3799 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3800 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3802 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3803 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3805 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3806 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3807 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3809 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3810 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3811 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3812 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3813 effects of the memory clear).
3815 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3816 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3817 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3818 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3820 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3821 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3822 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3823 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3824 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3825 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3827 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3830 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3831 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3832 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3833 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3834 as large as several megabytes.
3836 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3837 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3840 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3841 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3842 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3843 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3844 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3845 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3846 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3848 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3849 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3850 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3851 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3853 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3854 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3855 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3858 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3859 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3860 They were already unimplemented.
3862 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3863 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3864 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3865 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3867 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3868 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3869 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3870 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3871 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3873 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3874 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3875 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3876 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3877 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3879 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3880 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3881 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3882 did not reflect that.
3884 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3885 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3886 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3887 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3888 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3889 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3890 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3893 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3894 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3895 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3896 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3898 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3899 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3900 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3901 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3903 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3904 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3907 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3908 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3911 Security related changes:
3913 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3914 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3915 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3916 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3917 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3919 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3920 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3921 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3922 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3925 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3927 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3928 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3930 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3931 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3932 before it started waiting
3933 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3934 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3935 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3936 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3938 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3939 library linked with pthread
3940 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3941 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3942 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3943 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3944 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3945 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3946 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3948 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3950 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3951 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3952 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3953 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3954 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3955 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3956 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3957 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3958 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3960 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3961 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3962 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3963 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3964 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3965 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3966 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3967 causes a segmentation fault
3968 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3970 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3971 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3973 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3975 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3976 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3977 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3979 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3980 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3982 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3983 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3984 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3985 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3986 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3987 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3988 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3989 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3991 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3992 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3993 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3995 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3997 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3999 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4000 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4001 cause transition penalty
4002 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4003 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4004 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4005 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4006 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4008 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4010 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4011 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4012 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4013 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4014 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4015 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4017 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4019 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4020 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4021 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4022 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4023 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4024 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4025 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4026 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4027 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4028 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4029 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4030 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4031 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4032 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4034 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4035 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4036 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4037 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4038 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4039 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4040 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4041 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4042 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4043 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4044 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4045 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4046 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4047 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4048 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4049 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4050 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4051 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4053 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4054 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4055 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4056 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4057 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4059 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4060 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4061 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4062 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4063 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4064 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4065 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4067 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4068 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4069 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4070 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4071 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4075 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4076 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4077 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4078 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4079 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4082 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4083 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4084 been included in previous releases.
4086 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4087 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4089 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4090 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4091 instead of “union wait”.
4093 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4094 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4095 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4096 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4097 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4098 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4099 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4101 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4104 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4105 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4108 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4109 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4110 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4111 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4112 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4115 Security related changes:
4117 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4118 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4119 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4121 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4122 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4123 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4124 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4126 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4127 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4128 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4130 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4131 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4132 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4134 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4135 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4136 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4137 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4139 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4141 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4142 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4144 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4145 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4146 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4147 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4148 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4149 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4150 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4151 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4153 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4154 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4155 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4156 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4157 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4158 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4160 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4162 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4163 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4164 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4165 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4166 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4167 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4168 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4169 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4170 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4171 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4172 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4174 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4175 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4176 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4177 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4178 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4179 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4181 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4182 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4184 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4185 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4186 Romanian locale data
4187 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4189 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4190 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4192 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4193 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4194 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4195 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4197 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4199 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4200 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4201 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4202 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4203 when using RTLD_NEXT
4204 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4205 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4206 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4207 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4208 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4209 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4210 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4211 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4212 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4214 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4215 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4216 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4217 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4219 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4221 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4223 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4224 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4225 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4226 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4227 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4228 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4230 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4231 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4233 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4234 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4236 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4238 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4240 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4241 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4242 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4243 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4244 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4245 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4246 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4247 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4248 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4249 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4250 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4251 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4252 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4253 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4255 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4257 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4258 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4259 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4260 response to getaddrinfo
4261 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4262 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4263 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4264 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4265 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4266 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4268 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4269 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4270 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4272 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4273 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4274 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4275 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4277 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4278 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4279 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4281 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4282 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4283 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4284 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4285 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4286 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4287 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4288 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4290 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4291 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4292 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4294 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4295 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4296 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4297 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4298 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4299 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4300 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4301 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4302 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4303 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4304 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4305 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4306 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4308 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4309 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4310 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4311 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4313 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4314 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4316 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4317 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4318 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4319 AS not supporting AVX512
4320 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4322 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4323 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4325 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4326 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4327 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4328 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4329 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4331 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4332 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4334 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4335 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4336 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4337 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4338 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4339 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4340 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4341 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4342 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4344 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4345 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4346 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4347 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4348 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4349 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4350 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4351 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4352 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4353 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4354 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4355 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4356 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4358 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4359 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4360 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4361 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4362 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4364 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4365 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4367 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4368 "invalid" exceptions
4369 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4370 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4371 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4372 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4373 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4374 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4375 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4376 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4377 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4381 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4382 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4383 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4384 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4385 89, 16061, and 18568.
4387 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4388 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4389 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4390 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4391 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4392 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4393 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4395 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4396 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4397 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4399 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4400 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4401 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4402 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4403 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4404 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4405 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4407 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4408 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4409 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4410 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4411 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4412 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4413 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4416 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4417 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4418 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4419 independent of the GNU C Library.
4421 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4422 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4424 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4425 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4426 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4427 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4428 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4431 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4432 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4434 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4435 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4436 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4437 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4438 defining their own copy.
4440 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4441 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4442 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4444 Security related changes:
4446 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4447 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4449 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4450 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4451 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4452 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4455 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4456 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4458 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4459 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4461 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4462 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4463 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4465 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4466 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4467 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4468 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4469 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4470 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4471 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4472 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4473 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4474 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4475 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4476 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4477 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4479 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4481 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4482 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4483 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4484 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4485 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4486 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4488 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4489 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4490 overflow/underflow errors
4491 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4493 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4494 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4495 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4496 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4497 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4498 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4500 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4501 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4502 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4503 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4504 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4505 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4506 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4507 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4508 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4510 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4512 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4513 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4514 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4516 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4517 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4518 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4519 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4520 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4522 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4523 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4525 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4526 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4527 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4528 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4529 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4530 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4531 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4532 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4534 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4535 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4536 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4537 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4538 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4540 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4541 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4543 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4544 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4545 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4546 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4547 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4549 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4550 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4551 (related to lock elision)
4552 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4553 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4554 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4555 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4557 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4558 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4559 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4560 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4561 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4562 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4563 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4564 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4565 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4566 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4567 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4568 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4569 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4570 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4571 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4572 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4573 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4574 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4575 contains a vector instruction exception.
4576 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4577 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4579 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4580 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4581 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4582 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4583 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4585 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4587 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4588 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4590 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4591 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4592 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4593 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4594 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4596 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4597 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4598 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4599 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4600 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4601 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4602 statically too large
4603 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4604 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4605 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4606 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4607 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4608 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4609 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4610 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4611 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4613 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4614 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4615 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4616 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4617 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4618 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4619 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4621 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4622 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4623 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4624 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4626 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4627 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4628 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4629 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4630 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4631 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4633 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4634 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4635 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4636 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4637 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4638 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4640 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4641 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4642 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4643 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4644 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4645 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4646 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4647 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4649 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4650 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4651 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4652 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4653 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4654 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4655 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4656 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4657 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4659 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4661 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4662 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4663 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4665 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4666 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4667 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4668 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4669 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4670 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4671 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4672 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4673 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4674 pthread_setaffinity_np
4675 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4676 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4677 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4678 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4679 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4681 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4682 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4683 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4684 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4685 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4686 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4687 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4689 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4690 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4691 for C99-based standards
4692 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4693 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4695 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4696 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4697 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4699 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4700 "inexact" exceptions
4701 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4703 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4704 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4705 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4706 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4708 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4709 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4710 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4711 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4712 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4713 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4714 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4715 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4716 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4717 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4719 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4720 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4721 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4722 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4724 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4725 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4726 error on 32-bit architectures
4727 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4728 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4729 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4730 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4731 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4732 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4733 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4734 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4735 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4737 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4739 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4740 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4741 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4742 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4744 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4748 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4750 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4751 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4752 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4753 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4754 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4755 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4756 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4757 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4758 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4759 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4760 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4761 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4762 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4763 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4764 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4765 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4766 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4767 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4768 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4769 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4771 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4772 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4774 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4775 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4776 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4777 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4778 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4779 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4781 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4782 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4783 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4784 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4785 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4787 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4788 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4789 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4791 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4792 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4793 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4796 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4797 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4798 condition in some applications.
4800 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4801 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4803 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4804 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4805 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4806 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4807 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4809 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4810 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4811 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4812 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4814 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4815 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4816 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4818 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4819 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4821 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4822 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4823 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4825 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4826 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4827 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4831 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4833 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4834 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4835 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4836 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4837 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4838 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4839 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4840 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4841 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4842 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4845 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4846 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4847 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4848 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4851 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4852 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4853 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4854 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4855 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4856 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4858 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4860 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4861 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4862 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4864 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4865 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4866 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4867 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4868 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4869 effects being visible outside transactions.
4871 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4872 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4874 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4876 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4877 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4878 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4879 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4880 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4882 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4883 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4885 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4886 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4889 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4890 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4891 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4893 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4894 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4896 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4898 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4899 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4900 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4901 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4903 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4904 with newer versions of bison.
4906 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4907 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4908 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4909 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4910 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4911 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4912 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4913 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4914 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4915 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4916 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4917 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4918 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4920 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4921 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4922 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4923 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4924 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4928 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4930 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4931 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4932 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4933 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4934 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4935 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4936 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4937 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4938 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4939 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4940 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4941 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4942 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4943 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4944 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4946 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4947 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4948 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4949 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4950 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4951 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4952 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4953 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4954 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4955 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4957 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4958 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4959 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4960 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4961 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4963 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4965 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4966 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4968 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4969 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4970 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4971 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4972 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4973 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4975 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4978 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4979 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4980 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4981 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4982 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4983 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4984 test macros defined.
4986 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4988 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4989 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4990 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4991 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4992 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4993 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4996 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4997 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4998 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4999 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5002 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5003 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5004 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5006 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5007 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5008 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5009 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5011 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5012 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5013 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5014 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5015 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5016 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5017 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5020 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5021 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5022 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5023 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5024 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5025 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5026 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5027 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5028 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5030 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5031 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5032 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5033 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5034 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5035 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5037 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5038 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5039 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5040 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5044 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5046 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5047 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5048 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5049 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5050 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5051 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5052 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5053 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5054 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5055 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5056 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5057 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5058 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5059 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5060 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5061 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5062 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5063 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5065 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5066 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5068 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5069 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5070 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5071 extension which uses __block.
5073 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5074 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5075 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5076 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5077 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5079 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5080 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5081 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5082 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5085 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5086 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5087 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5088 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5089 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5091 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5092 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5093 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5095 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5096 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5097 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5100 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5101 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5103 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5104 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5106 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5108 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5111 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5113 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5115 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5116 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5117 for which the C library was built.
5119 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5120 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5121 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5122 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5123 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5124 in the following circumstances:
5126 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5128 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5129 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5131 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5132 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5134 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5135 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5137 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5139 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5140 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5142 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5144 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5146 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5148 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5149 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5150 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5151 disable some of those declarations.
5153 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5154 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5155 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5157 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5158 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5160 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5161 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5162 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5163 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5164 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5165 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5166 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5167 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5168 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5169 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5170 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5171 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5172 require recompilation.
5176 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5178 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5179 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5180 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5181 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5182 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5183 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5184 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5185 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5186 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5187 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5188 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5189 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5190 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5193 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5194 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5195 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5196 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5197 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5198 understands and accepts the risks.
5200 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5203 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5204 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5206 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5207 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5208 destructor calls to glibc.
5210 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5213 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5214 non-x86 architectures.
5216 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5218 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5220 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5223 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5225 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5228 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5229 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5231 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5233 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5234 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5236 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5237 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5239 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5240 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5241 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5243 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5244 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5245 attributes of a process.
5247 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5248 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5249 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5250 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5253 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5254 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5256 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5260 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5262 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5263 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5264 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5265 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5266 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5267 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5268 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5269 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5270 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5271 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5272 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5273 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5274 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5275 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5276 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5278 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5280 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5281 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5283 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5284 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5286 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5288 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5289 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5291 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5293 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5294 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5295 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5297 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5298 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5300 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5301 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5303 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5304 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5306 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5307 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5309 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5310 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5311 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5312 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5314 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5315 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5317 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5318 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5321 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5322 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5323 information in --help and --version output.
5325 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5326 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5327 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5329 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5330 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5331 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5332 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5333 when the mode is enabled.
5335 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5336 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5337 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5338 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5339 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5340 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5341 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5343 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5348 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5350 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5351 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5352 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5353 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5354 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5355 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5356 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5357 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5358 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5359 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5360 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5361 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5362 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5363 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5364 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5365 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5366 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5367 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5368 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5369 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5370 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5371 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5374 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5375 configuring glibc with:
5376 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5377 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5378 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5382 + define static_assert
5384 + do not declare gets
5386 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5388 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5389 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5390 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5393 + timespec_get added
5395 + uchar.h support added
5397 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5399 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5401 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5403 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5405 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5406 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5408 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5409 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5411 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5412 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5413 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5414 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5415 existing applications.
5417 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5418 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5421 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5422 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5423 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5425 * New locales: mag_IN
5427 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5428 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5429 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5430 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5431 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5433 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5435 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5438 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5440 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5441 without a previously built glibc.
5443 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5444 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5446 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5447 now supported for ARM processors.
5449 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5450 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5451 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5453 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5455 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5456 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5457 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5458 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5460 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5461 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5462 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5463 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5465 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5466 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5467 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5468 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5469 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5471 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5472 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5473 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5474 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5478 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5480 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5481 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5482 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5483 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5484 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5485 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5486 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5488 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5491 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5492 and support for initgroups lookups.
5493 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5495 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5496 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5498 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5499 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5501 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5502 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5503 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5505 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5506 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5508 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5509 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5510 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5512 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5513 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5515 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5516 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5518 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5519 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5521 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5522 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5524 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5525 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5527 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5528 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5530 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5532 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5535 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5536 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5538 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5542 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5544 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5545 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5546 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5547 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5548 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5549 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5550 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5551 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5552 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5553 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5555 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5556 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5557 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5558 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5560 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5561 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5562 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5563 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5565 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5566 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5568 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5569 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5571 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5573 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5574 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5576 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5577 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5578 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5579 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5583 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5585 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5586 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5587 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5588 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5591 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5593 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5595 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5596 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5597 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5601 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5603 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5604 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5605 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5606 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5607 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5608 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5609 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5610 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5612 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5614 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5616 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5618 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5619 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5620 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5622 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5623 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5624 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5625 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5626 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5628 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5632 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5634 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5635 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5636 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5637 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5638 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5639 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5641 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5645 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5646 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5648 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5649 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5651 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5653 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5654 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5655 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5656 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5658 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5659 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5661 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5663 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5665 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5666 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5668 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5669 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5671 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5672 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5674 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5675 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5676 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5677 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5678 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5679 necessity is every process again.
5680 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5682 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5683 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5685 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5686 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5688 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5689 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5690 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5692 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5696 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5698 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5699 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5700 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5701 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5702 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5704 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5705 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5707 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5708 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5710 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5711 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5713 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5716 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5717 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5719 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5720 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5722 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5723 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5725 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5726 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5728 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5729 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5730 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5732 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5734 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5735 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5737 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5738 and extend existing format specifiers.
5739 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5741 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5742 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5744 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5745 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5746 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5747 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5748 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5749 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5753 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5755 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5756 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5757 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5758 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5759 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5761 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5762 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5764 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5765 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5767 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5768 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5770 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5771 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5772 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5774 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5775 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5777 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5779 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5780 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5782 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5783 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5784 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5785 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5787 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5788 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5790 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5792 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5794 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5798 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5800 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5801 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5802 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5803 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5804 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5805 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5806 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5808 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5810 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5812 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5813 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5815 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5817 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5818 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5820 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5821 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5823 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5824 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5825 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5827 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5828 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5830 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5833 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5834 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5836 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
5837 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5841 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5843 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5844 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5845 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5846 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5847 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5849 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5850 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5852 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5854 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5855 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5856 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5858 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5859 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5861 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5862 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5864 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5866 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5867 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5869 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5870 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5872 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5873 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5875 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5877 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5878 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5880 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5881 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5884 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5885 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5889 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5891 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5892 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5893 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5894 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5895 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5896 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5897 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5900 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5902 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5904 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5908 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5910 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5911 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5912 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5913 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5914 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5915 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5916 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5917 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5918 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5920 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5921 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5922 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5924 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5925 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5927 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5929 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5931 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5932 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5933 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5934 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5935 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5937 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5938 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5939 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5940 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5942 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5945 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5947 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5950 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5952 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5953 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5957 * More overflow detection functions.
5959 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5960 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5962 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5963 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5964 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5965 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5966 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5967 by Masahide Washizawa.
5969 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5970 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5972 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5973 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5974 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5975 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5977 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5978 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5980 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5982 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5983 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5984 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5986 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5987 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5989 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5990 for compatibility with some other systems.
5992 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5996 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5998 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5999 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6000 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6001 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6002 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6003 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6005 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6007 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6009 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6013 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6015 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6016 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6017 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6018 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6020 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6024 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6025 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6027 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6028 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6029 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6031 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6032 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6034 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6036 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6038 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6039 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6042 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6043 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6044 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6046 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6047 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6049 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6050 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6051 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6052 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6054 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6055 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6056 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6057 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6059 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6060 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6061 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6062 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6063 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6067 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6068 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6070 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6071 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6073 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6074 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6076 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6077 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6079 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6082 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6085 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6090 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6091 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6092 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6093 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6094 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6095 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6096 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6097 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6098 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6100 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6101 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6102 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6104 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6106 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6107 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6109 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6110 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6112 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6114 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6115 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6117 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6118 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6119 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6120 of weak definition in ld.so.
6122 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6123 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6125 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6126 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6130 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6133 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6134 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6136 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6137 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6139 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6140 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6142 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6143 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6144 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6146 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6147 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6149 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6150 implementation of regex.
6152 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6155 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6156 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6158 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6159 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6160 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6162 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6163 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6165 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6166 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6167 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6169 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6170 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6172 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6173 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6176 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6180 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6181 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6183 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6184 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6188 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6189 128-bit long double format.
6191 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6192 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6194 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6196 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6198 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6201 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6202 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6204 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6208 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6209 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6211 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6212 support Unicode 3.1.
6214 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6215 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6217 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6219 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6220 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6221 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6223 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6224 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6226 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6227 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6229 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6233 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6234 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6235 in float, double, and long double format.
6237 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6238 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6239 128-bit long double format.
6241 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6242 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6243 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6244 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6246 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6247 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6248 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6250 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6251 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6253 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6254 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6256 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6257 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6258 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6260 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6261 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6263 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6264 of functions for Linux/x86.
6266 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6270 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6271 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6272 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6273 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6274 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6275 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6278 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6279 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6281 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6282 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6283 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6284 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6286 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6291 only lists the names of the supported locales
6295 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6296 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6300 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6301 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6302 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6303 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6304 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6306 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6308 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6310 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6312 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6313 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6314 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6316 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6317 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6319 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6320 changed from the default "C" locale.
6322 * The usual bug fixes.
6326 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6327 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6330 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6332 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6334 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6335 obviously requires a database library being available.
6337 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6339 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6341 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6342 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6344 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6346 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6347 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6350 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6351 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6352 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6354 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6355 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6357 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6358 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6359 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6361 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6362 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6363 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6364 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6366 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6367 structures for the wide character tables.
6369 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6371 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6373 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6375 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6378 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6380 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6382 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6384 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6386 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6388 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6389 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6390 implemented for Linux.
6392 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6393 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6394 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6397 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6400 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6414 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6416 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6418 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6420 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6422 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6424 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6426 * Update timezone data files.
6428 * lots of charmaps corrections
6430 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6435 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6436 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6437 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6438 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6439 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6440 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6442 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6443 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6445 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6448 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6449 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6451 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6453 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6456 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6458 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6459 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6461 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6464 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6465 functions from ISO C 9X.
6467 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6468 real valued functions.
6470 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6472 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6474 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6476 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6478 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6480 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6482 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6484 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6485 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6487 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6488 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6492 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6494 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6496 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6498 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6500 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6502 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6504 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6505 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6508 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6509 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6511 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6513 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6515 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6516 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6518 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6520 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6523 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6524 latest draft standards.
6526 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6528 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6529 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6530 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6531 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6532 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6533 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6534 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6535 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6536 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6537 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6538 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6539 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6540 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6541 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6542 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6543 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6544 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6545 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6546 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6547 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6549 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6550 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6551 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6552 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6553 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6560 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6561 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6562 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6563 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6564 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6566 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6567 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6568 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6569 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6570 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6571 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6575 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6576 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6582 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6583 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6584 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6585 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6587 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6588 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6589 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6599 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6600 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6602 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6603 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6608 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6609 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6612 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6613 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6617 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6618 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6620 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6621 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6622 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6624 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6625 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6629 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6630 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6634 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6635 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6636 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6637 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6638 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6640 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6641 ferror_locked REMOVED
6642 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6643 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6644 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6645 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6646 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6647 fflush_locked REMOVED
6651 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6652 fileno_locked REMOVED
6664 fputc_locked REMOVED
6665 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6666 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6671 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6675 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6677 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6678 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6682 getchar_locked REMOVED
6684 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6685 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6687 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6688 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6689 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6690 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6691 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6692 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6693 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6694 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6695 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6696 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6697 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6698 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6699 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6700 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6702 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6703 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6704 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6705 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6706 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6707 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6708 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6709 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6710 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6711 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6712 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6713 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6714 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6715 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6716 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6717 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6718 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6719 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6720 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6721 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6722 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6723 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6724 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6725 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6726 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6727 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6732 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6733 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6734 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6735 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6736 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6738 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6739 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6742 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6746 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6747 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6748 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6749 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6750 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6751 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6752 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6753 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6757 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6759 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6760 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6763 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6764 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6765 profil_counter REMOVED
6766 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6767 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6768 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6769 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6771 putchar_locked REMOVED
6772 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6774 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6775 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6779 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6780 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6781 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6782 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6784 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6785 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6787 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6788 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6789 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6791 sendfile NEW: kernel
6792 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6793 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6794 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6796 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6797 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6798 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6799 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6800 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6801 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6802 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6803 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6804 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6808 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6809 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6810 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6811 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6812 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6813 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6814 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6815 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6816 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6817 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6818 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6819 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6820 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6824 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6825 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6827 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6828 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6829 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6830 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6831 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6832 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6834 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6835 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6836 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6837 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6838 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6839 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6840 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6842 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6843 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6844 write_profiling REMOVED
6845 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6846 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6847 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6848 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6849 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6850 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6851 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6852 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6853 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6854 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6855 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6856 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6857 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6858 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6859 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6860 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6871 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6873 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6875 * rewrite of cbrt function
6877 * update of timezone data
6891 * add atoll function
6893 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6895 * fix math functions
6899 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6901 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6903 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6904 the ELF dynamic loader.
6906 * support for parallel builds is improved
6910 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6911 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6914 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6915 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6916 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6917 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6918 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6919 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6920 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6921 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6922 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6923 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6924 files in the ELF format.
6926 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6927 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6929 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6930 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6931 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6932 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6933 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6934 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6935 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6936 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6937 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6938 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6939 about dynamically linked binaries.
6941 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6942 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6943 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6944 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6945 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6947 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6948 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6949 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6950 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6951 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6953 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6955 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6956 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6957 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6958 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6959 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6960 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6961 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6962 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6963 NSS services available.
6965 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6966 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6967 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6969 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6970 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6971 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6973 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6974 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6975 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6976 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6978 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6979 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6980 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6982 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6983 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6984 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6986 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6987 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6989 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6990 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6991 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6992 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
6994 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6995 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6996 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6998 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6999 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7000 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7001 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7002 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7003 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7004 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7005 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7007 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7008 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7009 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7010 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7011 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7012 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7013 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7015 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7016 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7017 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7018 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7019 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7020 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7022 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7023 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7025 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7026 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7027 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7029 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7031 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7032 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7033 their use is discouraged.
7035 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7036 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7038 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7039 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7041 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7042 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7044 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7047 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7048 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7049 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7050 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7051 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7053 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7054 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7055 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7056 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7058 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7059 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7061 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7062 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7063 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7064 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7067 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7068 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7070 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7071 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7073 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7074 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7075 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7076 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7078 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7080 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7081 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7082 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7084 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7085 for arithmetic and string handling.
7087 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7088 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7089 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7090 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7092 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7093 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7094 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7095 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7096 programs already written to use it.)
7098 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7101 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7104 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7105 a given effective group ID.
7107 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7108 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7109 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7110 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7112 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7113 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7114 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7115 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7116 doing the same thing.
7118 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7119 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7121 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7122 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7124 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7126 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7127 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7128 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7129 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7130 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7132 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7133 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7135 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7136 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7137 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7140 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7142 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7143 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7146 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7147 and writing the utmp file.
7149 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7152 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7153 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7154 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7156 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7157 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7159 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7160 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7163 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7164 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7165 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7166 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7168 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7169 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7170 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7172 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7173 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7174 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7177 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7180 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7183 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7185 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7186 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7187 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7191 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7193 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7194 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7196 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7197 want to put themselves in the background.
7199 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7200 run without an operating system.
7202 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7203 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7205 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7206 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7208 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7210 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7211 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7214 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7217 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7218 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7222 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7223 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7224 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7226 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7227 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7229 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7230 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7232 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7234 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7236 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7239 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7240 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7241 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7243 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7245 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7246 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7247 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7249 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7250 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7251 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7252 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7253 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7256 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7257 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7258 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7259 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7260 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7263 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7264 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7268 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7269 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7271 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7272 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7273 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7275 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7276 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7277 address of the last character written.
7279 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7280 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7282 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7283 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7285 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7286 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7287 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7288 you dereference this pointer.
7290 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7291 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7293 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7294 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7295 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7296 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7298 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7299 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7300 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7301 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7305 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7306 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7307 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7308 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7309 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7311 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7313 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7315 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7316 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7318 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7319 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7321 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7322 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7324 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7325 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7326 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7327 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7328 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7330 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7331 to the error code in `errno'.
7333 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7334 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7335 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7338 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7339 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7340 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7342 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7343 uniquely-named temporary file.
7347 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7348 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7349 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7351 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7354 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7355 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7357 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7361 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7362 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7363 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7364 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7366 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7367 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7368 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7370 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7371 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7373 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7374 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7375 made itself into a shared library.
7377 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7378 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7380 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7381 with limited length.
7383 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7385 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7387 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7389 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7390 function for traversing a directory tree.
7392 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7393 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7394 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7395 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7397 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7398 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7400 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7402 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7403 things to your strings.
7405 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7407 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7408 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7409 supporting those systems.
7411 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7412 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7413 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7414 configuration files.
7416 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7417 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7419 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7420 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7423 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7424 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7425 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7426 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7427 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7428 required storage is not available.
7430 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7431 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7433 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7434 latest files released from Berkeley.
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