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12 * The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
13 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
14 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
15 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
17 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC23_SOURCE to
18 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
19 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
20 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
21 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
22 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
24 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, used to run a program
25 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
26 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
27 be a security feature.
29 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
31 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
33 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
35 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
37 Security related changes:
39 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
40 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
42 [The release manager will add the list generated by
43 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
45 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
47 [The release manager will add the list generated by
48 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
54 * A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
55 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
56 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
58 * Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
59 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
61 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
62 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
63 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
64 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
66 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
67 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
68 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
69 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
70 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
72 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
73 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
74 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
75 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
76 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
77 posix_spawn interface.
79 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
80 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
81 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
83 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
84 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
85 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
86 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
87 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
88 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
90 * A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
91 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
92 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
95 * The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
96 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
97 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
98 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
99 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
100 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
101 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
102 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
104 * On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
105 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
106 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
107 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
108 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
109 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
111 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
113 * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
114 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
115 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
117 * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
118 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
119 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
120 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
121 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
122 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
123 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
125 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
126 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
127 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
128 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
130 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
131 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
132 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
133 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
136 * The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
137 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
138 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
139 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
142 * The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
144 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
146 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
149 Security related changes:
151 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
152 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
155 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
158 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
161 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
165 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
168 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
171 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
173 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
175 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
176 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
177 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
178 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
179 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
180 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
181 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
182 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
183 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
184 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
185 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
186 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
187 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
189 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
191 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
192 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
193 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
194 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
195 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
196 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
197 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
199 [27601] localedata: License information update in
200 localedata/locales/ast_ES
201 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
203 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
204 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
205 following dlclose with unused TLS
206 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
207 week should be Monday
208 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
209 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
210 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
211 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
212 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
213 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
214 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
216 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
217 encoding name was wrong
218 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
220 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
222 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
223 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
224 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
225 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
226 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
227 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
228 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
229 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
231 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
232 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
233 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
235 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
237 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
238 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
240 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
242 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
244 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
245 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
246 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
248 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
250 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
252 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
254 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
256 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
258 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
259 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
260 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
262 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
263 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
265 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
267 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
268 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
269 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
270 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
271 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
273 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
274 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
275 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
276 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
277 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
279 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
280 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
281 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
282 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
283 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
284 same as the full month names
285 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
286 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
287 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
289 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
295 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
296 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
297 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
298 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
299 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
300 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
301 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
302 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
303 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
304 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
305 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
307 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
310 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
311 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
312 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
313 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
314 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
315 specified in draft ISO C2X.
317 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
318 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
320 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
321 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
325 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
326 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
327 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
328 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
329 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
331 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
332 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
334 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
335 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
336 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
337 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
338 original behavior unchanged.
340 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
342 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
343 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
344 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
345 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
347 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
348 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
349 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
350 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
351 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
352 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
354 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
355 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
356 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
358 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
359 feature is now always enabled.
361 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
363 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
366 Security related changes:
368 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
369 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
370 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
371 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
372 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
373 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
375 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
377 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
378 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
380 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
381 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
382 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
383 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
385 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
386 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
388 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
389 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
390 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
391 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
392 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
393 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
395 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
396 symlink for libraries without soname
397 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
399 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
400 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
401 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
402 profiling data correctly
403 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
404 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
405 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
406 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
408 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
409 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
410 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
412 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
413 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
415 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
416 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
417 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
423 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
424 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
425 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
426 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
428 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
430 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
431 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
432 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
433 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
435 Security related changes:
437 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
438 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
439 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
440 portion of the contents of the heap.
442 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
444 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
445 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
446 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
447 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
448 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
449 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
450 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
452 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
453 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
455 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
456 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
457 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
458 gethostbyname and other functions
459 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
460 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
461 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
463 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
464 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
466 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
467 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
469 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
471 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
472 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
473 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
474 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
475 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
476 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
477 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
479 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
480 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
482 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
484 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
486 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
487 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
488 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
489 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
490 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
492 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
493 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
494 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
495 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
497 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
499 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
500 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
501 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
503 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
505 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
507 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
508 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
509 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
510 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
511 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
512 aux.S: No such file or directory)
513 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
514 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
515 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
516 coincides with offset change
517 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
518 length in fortify mode
524 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
525 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
526 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
527 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
528 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
529 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
531 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
532 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
533 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
535 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
536 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
539 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
540 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
541 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
542 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
544 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
545 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
546 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
547 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
548 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
549 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
550 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
551 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
552 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
553 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
554 validation by applications.
556 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
557 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
558 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
559 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
562 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
563 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
564 unpredictable output.
566 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
567 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
568 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
569 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
570 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
571 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
572 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
573 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
575 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
576 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
577 quality randomness from the kernel.
579 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
580 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
583 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
585 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
587 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
589 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
590 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
591 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
593 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
594 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
595 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
596 when libc.so is issued directly.
598 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
600 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
602 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
603 return different result with versioned "foo"
604 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
606 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
607 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
608 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
610 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
611 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
612 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
614 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
616 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
618 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
619 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
620 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
621 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
622 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
623 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
624 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
626 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
628 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
629 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
630 (breaks test isolation)
631 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
632 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
633 __convert_scm_timestamps
634 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
635 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
636 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
638 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
639 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
640 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
641 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
642 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
643 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
644 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
646 [28936] build: nm: No such file
647 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
648 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
650 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
652 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
653 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
654 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
656 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
658 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
659 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
660 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
661 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
662 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
663 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
664 is promoted to global scope
665 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
666 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
667 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
669 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
671 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
673 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
674 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
675 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
676 before '__fortified_attr_access'
677 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
678 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
679 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
680 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
681 value for filling after \0
682 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
683 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
684 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
686 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
687 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
688 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
689 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
690 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
691 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
692 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
694 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
695 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
696 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
697 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
698 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
699 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
700 missing on microblaze with largefile
706 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
707 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
708 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
710 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
711 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
713 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
714 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
715 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
716 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
717 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
718 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
719 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
720 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
721 glibc, and must be installed.
723 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
724 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
725 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
727 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
728 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
730 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
733 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
734 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
735 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
736 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
737 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
738 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
740 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
741 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
742 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
745 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
746 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
748 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
751 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
753 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
754 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
755 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
757 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
758 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
759 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
760 object dependency cases.
762 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
763 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
764 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
765 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
767 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
768 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
769 return value is only used for its boolean status.
771 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
772 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
773 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
774 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
775 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
776 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
777 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
778 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
779 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
780 Restartable Sequences.
782 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
783 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
785 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
786 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
787 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
788 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
789 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
790 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
791 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
794 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
795 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
796 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
797 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
798 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
801 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
802 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
804 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
805 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
808 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
809 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
814 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
815 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
817 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
818 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
819 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
820 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
821 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
823 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
824 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
826 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
827 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
828 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
830 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
831 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
832 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
833 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
836 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
837 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
839 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
841 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
842 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
843 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
845 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
846 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
848 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
849 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
851 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
853 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
855 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
856 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
857 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
859 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
860 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
861 catching coredumps and backtraces.
863 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
864 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
865 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
867 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
868 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
869 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
871 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
872 support prelink PIE binaries.
874 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
876 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
877 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
878 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
879 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
880 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
882 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
883 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
884 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
885 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
887 Security related changes:
889 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
890 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
891 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
893 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
894 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
896 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
897 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
898 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
900 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
901 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
902 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
903 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
904 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
906 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
908 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
909 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
910 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
911 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
913 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
914 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
916 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
918 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
919 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
920 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
921 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
922 ID whose lifetime has not ended
923 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
925 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
927 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
928 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
929 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
930 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
931 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
932 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
933 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
934 --enable-initfini-array
935 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
936 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
937 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
938 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
939 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
940 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
942 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
943 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
944 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
946 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
947 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
948 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
950 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
951 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
953 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
954 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
955 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
957 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
958 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
959 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
960 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
961 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
962 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
963 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
965 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
967 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
968 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
970 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
971 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
972 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
973 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
974 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
975 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
976 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
978 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
980 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
981 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
982 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
983 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
985 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
986 systems with TIMESIZE=64
987 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
988 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
989 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
990 spurious NUL character on state reset
991 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
993 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
994 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
996 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
997 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
999 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1000 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1001 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1002 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1003 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1004 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1006 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1008 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1009 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1010 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1011 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1013 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1014 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1015 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1016 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1017 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1018 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1019 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1020 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1021 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1022 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1023 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1024 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1025 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1026 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1028 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1030 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1031 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1032 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1034 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1035 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1037 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1039 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1040 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1041 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
1048 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1049 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1050 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1051 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1052 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1053 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1054 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1055 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1056 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1057 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1058 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1059 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1060 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1061 potentially exposing application bugs.
1063 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
1064 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
1065 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
1066 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
1068 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1069 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
1070 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
1071 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
1072 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1075 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1076 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1077 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1079 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1080 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1081 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1082 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
1084 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
1086 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1087 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1088 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1089 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1090 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1092 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
1093 --disable-scv configure option.
1095 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1096 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1097 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
1098 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
1099 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1100 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1103 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1104 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1105 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1106 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1107 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1108 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1111 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
1112 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1114 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
1115 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
1116 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
1117 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1118 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1119 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1120 is currently a GNU extension.
1122 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
1123 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1125 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
1126 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1127 although it is also present in other systems.
1129 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1130 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1131 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1132 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
1134 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1135 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1136 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
1138 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1140 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1141 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1144 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1145 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1146 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1148 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1149 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1150 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1152 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1153 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1155 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1157 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1158 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1159 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1160 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1161 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1162 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1163 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1164 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1165 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1166 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1167 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
1169 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
1170 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1171 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1172 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1173 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1174 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1175 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1176 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
1178 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
1179 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
1180 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
1181 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
1182 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
1183 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
1184 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
1186 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
1187 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1188 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1189 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1190 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1191 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1192 upgrade or downgrade process.
1194 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1195 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1196 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1198 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1199 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1200 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1201 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1203 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1204 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1205 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1206 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1207 this functionality back.
1209 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1210 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1211 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1212 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1214 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1215 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1216 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1217 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1218 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1219 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1220 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1221 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1222 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1224 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1226 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1227 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1228 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1229 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1231 Security related changes:
1233 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1234 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1235 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1236 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1238 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1239 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1240 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1242 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1243 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1244 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1246 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1248 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1249 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1250 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1251 given integer (closefrom)
1252 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1253 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1254 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1255 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1256 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1257 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1258 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1260 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1261 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1262 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1263 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1264 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1265 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1266 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1268 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1269 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1270 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1271 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1272 pthread_create and dlopen
1273 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1274 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1275 when non-root user changes priority
1276 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1278 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1279 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1280 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1282 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1283 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1285 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1286 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1287 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1288 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1290 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1291 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1292 the right free implementation
1293 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1294 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1295 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1296 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1297 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1299 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1300 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1301 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1302 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1303 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1304 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1305 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1307 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1308 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1310 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1311 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1312 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1313 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1314 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1315 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1317 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1318 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1319 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1320 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1321 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1322 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1323 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1324 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1326 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1327 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1329 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1330 information for the current directory
1331 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1332 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1333 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1334 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1335 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1337 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1338 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1339 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1340 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1342 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1343 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1344 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1345 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1346 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1347 tries resolving them lazily
1348 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1350 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1351 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1353 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1354 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1355 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1357 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1359 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1360 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1361 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1363 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1364 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1365 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1366 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1367 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1368 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1369 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1370 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1371 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1372 with n >= 0x80000000
1373 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1374 thread never allocated anything
1375 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1376 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1377 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1378 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1379 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1381 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1382 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1383 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1385 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1393 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1394 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1395 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1397 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1398 to change argv[0] string.
1400 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1401 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1402 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1403 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1404 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1405 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1406 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1407 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1408 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1410 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1411 information and library search path diagnostics.
1413 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1414 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1415 larger than fit in an integer.
1417 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1419 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1420 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1426 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1429 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1430 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1431 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1432 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1435 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1437 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1440 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1441 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1442 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1444 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1445 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1446 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1449 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1450 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1451 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1453 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1454 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1455 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1456 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1457 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1458 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1460 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1461 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1462 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1463 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1464 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1465 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1468 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1470 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1471 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1472 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1473 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1474 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1475 perform any adjustments.
1477 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1478 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1479 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1480 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1482 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1484 Security related changes:
1486 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1487 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1488 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1489 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1490 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1492 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1493 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1494 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1496 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1497 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1499 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1500 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1502 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1504 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1505 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1506 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1507 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1509 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1510 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1511 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1512 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1513 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1515 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1517 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1519 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1520 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1521 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1522 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1523 changing gnuc version
1524 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1526 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1528 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1529 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1530 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1531 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1532 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1533 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1534 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1535 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1536 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1537 too much stack space
1538 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1539 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1540 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1542 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1544 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1545 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1547 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1548 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1549 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1550 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1551 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1553 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1554 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1555 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1557 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1558 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1559 at the end of a memory mapping
1560 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1561 by the caller to the kernel
1562 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1563 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1564 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1565 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1567 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1568 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1569 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1570 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1571 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1572 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1573 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1575 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1576 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1577 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1578 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1580 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1582 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1584 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1585 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1586 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1587 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1589 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1591 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1592 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1593 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1595 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1597 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1599 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1601 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1602 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1603 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1604 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1606 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1608 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1610 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1611 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1612 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1614 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1615 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1616 [27177] dynamic-link:
1617 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1619 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1620 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1621 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1622 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1629 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1630 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1631 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1633 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1635 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1636 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1637 Three ABIs are supported:
1643 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1644 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1646 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1647 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1649 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1650 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1651 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1654 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1655 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1656 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1658 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1659 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1660 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1662 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1663 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1664 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1665 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1668 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1669 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1670 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1671 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1672 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1673 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1675 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1676 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1678 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1679 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1680 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1681 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1682 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1683 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1685 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1686 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1688 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1689 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1690 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1691 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1692 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1693 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1694 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1695 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1696 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1697 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1698 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1701 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1703 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1704 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1705 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1706 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1707 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1708 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1709 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1711 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1712 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1713 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1714 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1715 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1716 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1717 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1718 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1719 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1721 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1722 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1723 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1724 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1725 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1727 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1728 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1729 was not declared in any header file.
1731 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1732 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1733 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1734 sigaction functions instead.
1736 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1737 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1739 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1740 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1741 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1742 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1745 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1746 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1747 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1748 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1749 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1751 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1752 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1753 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1754 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1756 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1757 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1758 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1759 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1760 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1761 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1762 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1764 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1765 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1766 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1767 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1768 flavor of secure RPC.)
1770 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1771 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1772 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1773 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1774 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1775 object, to enable the hooks.
1777 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1778 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1779 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1782 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1784 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1785 long double redirects.
1787 Security related changes:
1789 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1790 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1791 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1793 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1794 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1795 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1797 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1798 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1800 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1801 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1802 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1805 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1807 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1808 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1809 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1810 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1811 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1812 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1813 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1814 filtee has constructor
1815 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1816 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1817 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1818 character entities for infinity & pi
1819 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1820 segfaults in applications
1821 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1822 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1823 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1824 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1825 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1826 function with -mlong-double-64
1827 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1829 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1831 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1832 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1833 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1834 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1835 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1836 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1838 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1839 dynamically loaded dsos
1840 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1841 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1843 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1844 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1845 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1846 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1847 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1848 stale configuration forever
1849 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1851 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1853 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1854 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1856 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1857 on 32 bit and old kernel
1858 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1859 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1861 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1862 amount of sigset_t bytes
1863 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1865 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1866 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1867 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1868 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1869 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1870 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1871 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1872 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1873 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1874 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1876 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1877 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1878 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1879 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1880 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1881 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1882 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1884 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1885 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1887 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1888 exiting detached thread
1889 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1891 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1893 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1894 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1895 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1896 dependencies in audit mode
1897 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1898 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1899 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1900 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1901 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1903 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1904 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1906 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1907 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1909 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1910 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1911 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1912 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1913 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1914 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1915 corruption in memset
1922 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1923 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1924 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1925 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1926 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1927 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1929 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1930 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1931 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1932 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1934 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1935 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1936 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1938 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1940 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1941 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1942 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1943 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1944 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1945 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1946 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1947 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1949 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1951 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1952 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1953 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1954 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1955 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1956 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1958 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1959 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1960 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1962 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1963 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1964 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1965 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1967 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1968 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1969 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1970 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1971 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1972 made this no longer practical.
1974 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1975 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1976 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1977 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1980 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1981 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1982 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1984 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1985 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1986 using clock_gettime instead.
1988 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1989 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1990 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1991 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1992 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1994 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1995 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1996 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1997 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1999 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2000 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2001 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2002 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2003 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2004 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2006 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2007 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2008 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2009 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2012 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2013 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2014 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2016 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2019 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2020 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2021 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2022 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2023 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2025 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2026 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2027 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2028 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2029 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2030 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2031 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2032 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2034 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2035 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2037 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2038 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2039 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2040 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2041 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2042 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2044 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2046 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
2047 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2048 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
2050 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2051 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2052 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2054 Security related changes:
2056 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2057 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2059 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2060 environment variable during program execution after a security
2061 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2062 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2063 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
2065 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2067 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2068 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2069 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2070 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2071 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2072 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2073 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2074 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2076 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2077 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2078 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2079 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2080 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2081 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2082 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2083 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2084 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2085 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2087 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2089 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2090 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2091 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2092 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2093 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2094 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2095 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2097 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2099 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2100 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2101 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2102 (stringop-overflow error)
2103 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2104 functions other can lead to crashes
2105 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2106 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2108 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2109 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2110 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2111 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2112 still can fail with an error
2113 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2114 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2115 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2116 initialized correctly
2117 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2119 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2120 value to an unsigned
2121 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2122 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2123 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2125 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2127 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2129 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2131 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2132 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2133 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2135 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2136 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2138 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2139 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2140 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2141 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2142 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2143 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
2150 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2151 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
2152 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2154 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2155 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
2157 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2158 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2159 to the callback function.
2161 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
2163 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2164 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2167 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2169 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2170 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2171 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2172 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2173 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2175 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2176 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2177 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2178 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2179 link time reference, is gone.
2181 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2182 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2183 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2184 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2185 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2186 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2187 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2188 the clock choice at initialization time).
2190 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2191 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2192 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2194 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2196 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2197 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2198 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2199 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2200 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2201 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2202 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2203 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2204 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2206 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2207 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2208 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2209 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2212 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2213 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2215 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2216 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2218 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2219 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2221 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2224 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2225 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2226 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2228 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2229 header have been removed.
2231 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2232 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2233 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2234 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2236 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2238 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2240 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2241 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2243 Security related changes:
2245 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2246 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2247 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2248 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2249 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2250 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2251 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2253 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2254 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2255 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2257 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2259 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2260 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2261 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2262 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2263 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2264 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2265 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2266 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2267 invalid input drops valid char
2268 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2269 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2270 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2271 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2272 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2274 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2275 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2276 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2277 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2279 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2280 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2281 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2282 for long double = double
2283 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2284 long double = double
2285 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2286 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2287 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2289 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2290 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2292 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2293 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2294 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2295 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2296 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2297 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2298 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2299 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2300 not the default "nor"
2301 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2302 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2303 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2304 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2306 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2307 unnecessary librt dependencies
2308 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2309 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2310 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2311 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2313 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2314 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2316 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2317 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2318 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2319 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2320 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2321 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2322 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2323 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2324 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2325 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2326 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2327 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2329 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2331 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2332 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2334 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2335 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2336 kernels and break testing
2337 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2338 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2339 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2340 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2341 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2342 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2343 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2345 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2346 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2348 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2350 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2351 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2352 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2353 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2354 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2355 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2356 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2357 always implemented in the same library
2358 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2359 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2360 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2368 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2369 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2371 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2372 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2373 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2374 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2375 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2376 configured location.
2378 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2380 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2381 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2383 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2384 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2385 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2386 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2387 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2388 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2389 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2390 process actually does not use HTM).
2392 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2393 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2394 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2395 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2396 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2399 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2400 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2401 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2402 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2403 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2405 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2406 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2408 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2409 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2411 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2412 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2413 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2414 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2415 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2416 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2417 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2419 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2420 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2421 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2423 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2425 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2426 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2428 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2429 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2430 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2431 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2433 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2434 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2435 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2436 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2439 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2440 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2441 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2442 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2443 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2444 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2446 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2447 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2448 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2449 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2450 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2452 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2453 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2454 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2456 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2458 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2460 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2461 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2463 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2464 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2466 Security related changes:
2468 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2469 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2470 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2472 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2473 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2474 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2475 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2476 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2478 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2479 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2480 or command injection issues in applications.
2482 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2484 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2485 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2486 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2488 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2489 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2490 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2492 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2493 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2494 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2495 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2496 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2497 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2498 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2499 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2500 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2501 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2502 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2503 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2504 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2505 pointer argument is non-NULL
2506 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2507 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2508 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2509 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2510 multithreads call popen
2511 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2512 and pthread_create fails.
2513 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2514 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2516 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2517 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2518 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2520 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2522 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2524 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2525 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2527 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2528 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2529 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2530 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2531 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2532 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2533 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2535 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2536 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2537 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2539 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2540 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2541 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2542 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2544 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2546 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2547 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2548 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2549 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2551 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2553 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2554 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2555 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2557 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2558 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2559 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2560 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2561 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2562 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2564 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2565 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2566 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2567 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2568 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2569 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2570 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2571 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2572 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2573 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2574 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2575 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2576 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2577 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2579 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2580 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2581 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2582 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2583 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2585 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2586 nearest rounding mode
2587 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2588 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2589 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2590 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2591 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2592 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2593 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2594 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2595 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2597 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2598 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2600 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2601 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2602 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2603 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2605 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2607 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2609 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2611 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2612 answers will be rejected)
2613 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2620 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2621 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2622 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2623 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2624 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2625 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2626 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2627 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2628 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2629 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2630 archive or binary locales.
2632 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2633 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2634 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2635 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2636 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2637 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2638 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2639 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2640 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2641 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2642 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2645 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2646 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2647 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2648 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2649 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2650 field) to indicate such support is required.
2652 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2653 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2654 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2656 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2657 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2659 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2660 fMxaddfNx functions.
2662 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2663 fMxsubfNx functions.
2665 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2666 fMxmulfNx functions.
2668 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2669 fMxdivfNx functions.
2671 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2672 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2673 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2674 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2677 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2678 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2680 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2683 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2684 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2685 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2686 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2687 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2688 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2689 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2690 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2692 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2693 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2694 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2695 the fstatat64 function.
2697 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2698 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2699 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2700 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2701 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2702 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2703 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2704 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2705 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2707 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2708 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2709 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2710 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2711 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2712 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2713 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2714 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2715 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2716 results in a load failure now.
2718 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2719 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2722 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2723 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2725 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2726 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2728 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2730 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2731 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2733 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2735 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2737 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2739 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2740 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2741 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2743 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2744 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2745 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2746 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2747 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2748 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2750 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2751 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2752 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2753 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2754 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2755 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2758 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2759 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2760 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2761 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2762 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2763 further explanation.
2765 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2766 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2767 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2769 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2771 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2772 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2773 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2775 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2776 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2777 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2778 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2780 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2781 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2782 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2783 for this function instead.
2785 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2786 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2787 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2789 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2790 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2791 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2792 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2794 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2795 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2796 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2797 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2798 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2800 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2801 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2802 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2803 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2804 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2805 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2808 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2809 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2810 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2813 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2814 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2815 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2817 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2818 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2819 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2820 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2821 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2822 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2824 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2825 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2826 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2827 behavior in a future release.
2829 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2831 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2833 Security related changes:
2835 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2836 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2837 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2838 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2840 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2841 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2843 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2844 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2847 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2848 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2849 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2851 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2853 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2854 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2855 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2856 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2857 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2858 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2859 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2860 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2861 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2863 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2864 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2865 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2866 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2867 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2869 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2871 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2872 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2873 scope with -O1 and higher
2874 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2875 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2876 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2877 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2878 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2879 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2880 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2881 horrible machine code)
2882 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2884 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2885 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2887 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2888 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2890 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2891 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2892 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2893 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2894 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2896 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2897 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2898 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2899 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2900 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2902 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2903 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2904 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2906 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2907 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2908 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2909 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2910 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2911 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2912 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2913 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2914 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2915 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2916 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2917 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2918 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2920 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2922 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2923 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2924 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2925 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2926 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2927 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2928 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2929 for Spanish with CLDR
2930 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2931 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2932 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2933 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2934 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2935 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2937 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2939 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2940 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2941 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2942 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2944 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2945 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2946 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2947 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2948 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2949 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2950 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2951 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2952 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2953 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2954 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2955 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2956 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2957 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2958 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2959 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2960 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2962 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2963 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2965 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2966 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2967 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2968 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2969 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2970 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2972 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2974 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2975 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2976 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2977 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2978 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2979 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2980 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2981 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2982 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2983 and libc build with -Os)
2984 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2985 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2986 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2987 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2988 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2989 that changes /etc/passwd
2990 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2992 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2993 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2994 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2996 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2997 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2998 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2999 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3000 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3002 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3003 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3005 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3006 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3007 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3008 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3010 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3011 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3012 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3013 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3015 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3017 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3019 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3021 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3023 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3024 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3025 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3026 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3027 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3028 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3029 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3030 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3032 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
3039 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3040 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
3041 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
3042 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3043 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3044 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3045 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
3046 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3047 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
3049 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
3050 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3053 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3055 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
3057 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3058 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3059 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3060 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3061 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3062 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3063 from a security and performance perspective.
3065 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3066 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3067 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3068 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3070 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
3071 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3072 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3073 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
3074 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3076 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
3077 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
3078 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3079 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3082 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3083 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3084 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
3086 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
3088 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3089 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3092 * The copy_file_range function was added.
3094 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3096 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3097 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3098 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3100 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3101 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3102 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3103 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3104 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3105 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3106 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3108 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3109 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3110 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3111 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3112 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3113 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3114 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3116 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3117 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
3118 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3119 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3122 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3123 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3124 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3125 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
3127 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3128 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3129 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3131 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3132 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
3133 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
3135 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3136 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3137 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3143 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3145 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3146 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
3147 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
3148 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3149 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3150 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3151 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3152 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3153 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3156 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3157 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3158 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3160 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3161 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3162 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3163 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3164 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3165 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3166 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3167 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3168 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3169 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3170 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3171 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3172 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3173 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3174 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3175 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3176 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3177 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3178 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3179 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3180 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3181 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3182 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3183 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3184 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3185 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3187 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3188 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
3190 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3191 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3192 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3193 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3194 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3195 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3196 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3198 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3199 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3200 exp10l for these functions instead.
3202 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3203 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3204 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3206 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3207 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3210 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3211 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3212 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3213 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3215 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3216 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3218 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3219 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3221 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3224 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3226 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3227 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3228 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3231 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3232 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3233 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3234 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3235 use, but predates the bits convention.
3237 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3239 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3242 Security related changes:
3244 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3245 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3246 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3247 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3250 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3251 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3252 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3253 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3255 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3256 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3257 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3260 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3261 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3262 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3264 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3265 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3266 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3267 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3269 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3270 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3271 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3274 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3275 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3276 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3277 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3278 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3280 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3281 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3284 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3285 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3286 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3288 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3289 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3290 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3292 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3293 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3294 small, instead of NULL.
3296 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3298 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3299 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3300 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3302 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3303 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3304 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3306 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3307 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3308 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3309 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3310 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3311 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3312 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3313 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3314 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3316 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3317 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3318 width Latin characters
3319 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3320 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3321 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3323 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3324 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3326 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3327 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3328 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3329 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3330 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3332 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3333 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3334 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3335 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3336 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3337 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3338 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3339 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3340 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3341 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3343 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3344 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3345 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3346 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3347 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3348 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3349 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3350 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3352 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3353 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3355 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3356 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3358 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3359 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3360 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3361 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3362 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3363 __regcall calling convention
3364 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3365 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3366 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3367 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3368 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3369 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3370 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3371 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3372 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3373 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3374 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3375 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3376 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3378 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3380 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3382 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3383 consistency check failures
3384 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3385 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3386 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3387 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3389 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3391 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3392 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3393 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3394 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3395 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3396 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3397 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3398 on memory allocation failure
3399 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3400 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3402 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3404 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3405 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3406 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3407 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3408 instead of EAI_NODATA
3409 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3410 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3411 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3412 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3414 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3415 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3416 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3417 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3418 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3419 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3420 allocation in syscall loops)
3421 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3422 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3423 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3424 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3425 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3426 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3427 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3428 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3429 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3431 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3432 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3433 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3435 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3436 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3438 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3440 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3441 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3442 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3443 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3444 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3445 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3446 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3447 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3448 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3449 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3450 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3451 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3452 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3453 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3454 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3455 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3456 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3457 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3459 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3461 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3462 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3464 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3465 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3466 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3467 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3469 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3470 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3471 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3472 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3473 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3474 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3475 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3476 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3477 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3478 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3479 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3481 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3482 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3483 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3484 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3485 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3486 the svid compat wrapper
3487 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3488 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3489 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3490 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3491 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3492 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3494 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3495 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3497 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3498 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3499 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3500 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3501 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3502 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3504 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3505 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3506 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3507 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3509 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3510 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3512 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3513 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3514 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3515 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3516 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3517 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3518 inside the ASCII printable range
3519 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3521 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3522 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3523 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3525 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3526 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3528 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3529 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3530 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3532 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3533 networking interface
3534 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3535 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3536 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3537 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3538 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3539 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3540 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3541 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3542 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3544 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3545 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3546 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3547 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3548 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3549 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3550 same as for Croatian
3551 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3552 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3553 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3555 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3557 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3558 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3559 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3560 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3561 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3563 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3564 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3565 modified in case of success
3566 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3567 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3569 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3571 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3572 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3573 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3574 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3575 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3576 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3577 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3578 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3580 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3581 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3582 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3583 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3584 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3585 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3586 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3587 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3588 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3590 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3591 elision and tunables
3592 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3594 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3595 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3596 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3598 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3599 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3601 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3602 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3603 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3604 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3605 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3606 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3607 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3608 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3609 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3616 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3617 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3618 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3619 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3620 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3621 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3622 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3624 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3625 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3626 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3627 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3628 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3629 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3630 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3632 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3633 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3636 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3638 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3639 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3640 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3642 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3643 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3644 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3645 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3646 object are still limited to six search domains.
3648 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3649 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3650 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3652 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3653 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3655 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3656 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3657 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3658 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3660 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3661 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3662 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3663 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3665 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3666 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3667 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3668 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3670 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3671 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3672 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3674 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3675 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3676 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3677 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3679 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3680 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3681 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3682 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3683 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3685 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3686 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3687 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3688 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3689 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3690 interfaces should be used instead.
3692 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3694 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3695 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3696 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3697 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3698 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3699 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3700 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3701 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3703 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3706 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3707 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3708 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3709 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3711 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3712 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3715 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3716 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3717 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3718 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3719 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3721 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3722 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3723 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3724 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3726 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3727 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3728 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3729 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3731 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3732 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3734 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3735 exported by accident.
3737 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3738 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3739 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3741 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3742 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3743 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3744 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3746 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3748 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3750 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3753 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3754 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3756 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3757 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3759 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3760 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3761 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3762 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3763 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3764 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3765 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3766 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3768 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3769 synced with the kernel:
3771 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3772 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3774 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3775 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3776 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3778 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3779 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3781 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3783 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3784 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3787 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3789 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3790 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3792 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3793 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3794 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3795 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3796 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3798 Security related changes:
3800 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3801 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3803 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3804 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3806 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3807 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3810 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3811 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3813 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3815 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3816 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3817 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3819 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3821 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3822 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3823 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3825 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3826 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3827 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3828 x86 and other generic code
3829 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3830 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3832 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3833 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3834 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3835 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3836 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3837 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3838 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3840 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3841 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3842 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3843 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3845 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3846 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3848 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3850 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3851 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3852 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3854 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3855 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3856 failures consistently
3857 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3858 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3859 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3860 frame-pointer on i386
3861 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3863 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3864 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3865 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3866 generic c code is used
3867 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3868 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3870 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3872 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3873 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3875 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3876 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3877 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3878 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3879 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3880 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3881 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3882 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3883 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3884 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3886 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3888 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3889 new posix_spawn implementation
3890 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3891 leads to lower CPU frequency
3892 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3893 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3894 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3895 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3896 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3897 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3898 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3899 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3900 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3901 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3902 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3903 not support gethostbyname4_r
3904 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3906 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3908 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3909 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3910 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3911 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3912 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3913 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3914 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3916 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3917 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3918 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3919 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3920 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3921 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3922 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3923 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3924 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3925 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3926 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3927 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3929 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3930 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3931 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3932 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3933 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3934 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3935 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3936 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3938 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3939 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3940 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3941 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3942 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3943 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3944 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3945 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3946 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3947 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3948 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3949 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3950 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3951 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3952 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3953 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3954 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3955 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3956 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3957 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3958 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3960 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3961 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3962 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3963 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3964 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3966 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3967 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3969 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3970 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3972 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3973 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3975 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3976 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3977 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3978 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3980 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3981 leading to relocation crash
3982 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3983 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3984 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3985 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3986 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3987 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3988 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3989 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3990 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3992 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3994 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3995 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3996 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3997 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3998 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3999 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4000 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4001 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4003 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4005 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4007 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4008 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4009 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4010 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4011 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4012 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4013 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4014 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4015 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4016 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4017 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4018 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4019 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4020 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4021 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4022 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4023 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4024 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4025 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4026 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4027 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4028 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4029 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4030 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4031 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4032 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4033 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4035 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4036 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4037 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4038 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4039 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
4044 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4045 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4046 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4049 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4050 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4051 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
4054 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4055 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4056 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4059 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4060 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4061 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4062 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4063 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4064 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4065 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4068 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4069 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4072 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4073 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4074 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4076 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4077 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4078 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4079 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4082 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
4083 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4084 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
4086 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4087 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
4088 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4089 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4090 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4091 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4092 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4093 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4094 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4095 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4096 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4099 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4101 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4103 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4104 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4105 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
4107 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4108 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4110 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4113 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4115 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
4117 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4118 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
4120 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4122 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
4123 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
4125 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4126 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4128 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4129 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4130 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4132 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4133 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4134 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4135 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4136 effects of the memory clear).
4138 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4139 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4140 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4141 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4143 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4144 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4145 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4146 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4147 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4148 if they are compiled or used with those options.
4150 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4153 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4154 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4155 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4156 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4157 as large as several megabytes.
4159 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4160 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4163 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4164 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4165 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4166 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4167 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4168 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4169 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4171 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4172 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4173 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4174 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4176 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
4177 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4178 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4181 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4182 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4183 They were already unimplemented.
4185 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4186 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4187 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4188 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4190 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4191 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4192 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4193 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4194 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4196 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4197 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4198 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4199 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4200 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4202 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4203 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4204 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4205 did not reflect that.
4207 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4208 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4209 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4210 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4211 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4212 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4213 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4216 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4217 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4218 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4219 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4221 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4222 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4223 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4224 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4226 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4227 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4230 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4231 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4234 Security related changes:
4236 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4237 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4238 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4239 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4240 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4242 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4243 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4244 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4245 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4248 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4250 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4251 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4253 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4254 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4255 before it started waiting
4256 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4257 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4258 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4259 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4261 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4262 library linked with pthread
4263 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4264 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4265 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4266 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4267 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4268 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4269 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4271 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4273 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4274 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4275 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4276 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4277 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4278 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4279 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4280 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4281 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4283 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4284 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4285 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4286 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4287 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4288 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4289 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4290 causes a segmentation fault
4291 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4293 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4294 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4296 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4298 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4299 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4300 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4302 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4303 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4305 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4306 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4307 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4308 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4309 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4310 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4311 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4312 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4314 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4315 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4316 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4318 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4320 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4322 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4323 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4324 cause transition penalty
4325 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4326 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4327 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4328 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4329 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4331 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4333 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4334 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4335 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4336 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4337 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4338 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4340 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4342 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4343 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4344 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4345 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4346 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4347 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4348 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4349 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4350 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4351 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4352 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4353 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4354 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4355 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4357 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4358 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4359 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4360 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4361 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4362 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4363 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4364 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4365 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4366 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4367 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4368 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4369 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4370 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4371 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4372 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4373 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4374 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4376 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4377 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4378 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4379 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4380 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4382 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4383 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4384 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4385 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4386 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4387 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4388 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4390 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4391 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4392 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4393 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4394 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4398 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4399 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4400 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4401 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4402 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4405 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4406 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4407 been included in previous releases.
4409 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4410 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4412 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4413 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4414 instead of “union wait”.
4416 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4417 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4418 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4419 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4420 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4421 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4422 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4424 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4427 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4428 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4431 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4432 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4433 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4434 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4435 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4438 Security related changes:
4440 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4441 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4442 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4444 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4445 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4446 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4447 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4449 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4450 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4451 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4453 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4454 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4455 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4457 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4458 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4459 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4460 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4462 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4464 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4465 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4467 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4468 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4469 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4470 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4471 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4472 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4473 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4474 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4476 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4477 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4478 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4479 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4480 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4481 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4483 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4485 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4486 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4487 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4488 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4489 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4490 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4491 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4492 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4493 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4494 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4495 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4497 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4498 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4499 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4500 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4501 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4502 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4504 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4505 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4507 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4508 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4509 Romanian locale data
4510 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4512 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4513 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4515 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4516 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4517 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4518 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4520 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4522 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4523 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4524 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4525 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4526 when using RTLD_NEXT
4527 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4528 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4529 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4530 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4531 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4532 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4533 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4534 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4535 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4537 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4538 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4539 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4540 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4542 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4544 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4546 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4547 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4548 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4549 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4550 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4551 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4553 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4554 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4556 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4557 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4559 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4561 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4563 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4564 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4565 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4566 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4567 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4568 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4569 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4570 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4571 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4572 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4573 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4574 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4575 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4576 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4578 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4580 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4581 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4582 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4583 response to getaddrinfo
4584 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4585 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4586 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4587 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4588 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4589 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4591 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4592 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4593 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4595 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4596 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4597 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4598 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4600 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4601 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4602 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4604 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4605 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4606 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4607 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4608 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4609 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4610 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4611 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4613 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4614 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4615 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4617 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4618 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4619 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4620 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4621 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4622 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4623 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4624 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4625 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4626 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4627 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4628 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4629 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4631 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4632 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4633 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4634 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4636 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4637 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4639 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4640 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4641 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4642 AS not supporting AVX512
4643 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4645 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4646 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4648 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4649 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4650 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4651 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4652 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4654 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4655 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4657 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4658 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4659 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4660 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4661 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4662 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4663 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4664 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4665 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4667 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4668 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4669 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4670 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4671 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4672 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4673 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4674 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4675 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4676 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4677 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4678 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4679 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4681 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4682 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4683 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4684 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4685 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4687 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4688 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4690 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4691 "invalid" exceptions
4692 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4693 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4694 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4695 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4696 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4697 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4698 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4699 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4700 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4704 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4705 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4706 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4707 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4708 89, 16061, and 18568.
4710 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4711 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4712 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4713 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4714 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4715 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4716 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4718 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4719 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4720 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4722 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4723 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4724 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4725 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4726 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4727 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4728 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4730 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4731 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4732 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4733 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4734 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4735 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4736 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4739 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4740 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4741 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4742 independent of the GNU C Library.
4744 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4745 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4747 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4748 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4749 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4750 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4751 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4754 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4755 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4757 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4758 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4759 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4760 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4761 defining their own copy.
4763 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4764 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4765 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4767 Security related changes:
4769 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4770 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4772 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4773 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4774 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4775 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4778 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4779 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4781 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4782 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4784 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4785 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4786 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4788 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4789 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4790 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4791 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4792 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4793 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4794 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4795 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4796 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4797 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4798 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4799 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4800 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4802 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4804 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4805 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4806 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4807 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4808 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4809 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4811 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4812 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4813 overflow/underflow errors
4814 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4816 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4817 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4818 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4819 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4820 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4821 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4823 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4824 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4825 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4826 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4827 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4828 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4829 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4830 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4831 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4833 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4835 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4836 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4837 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4839 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4840 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4841 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4842 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4843 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4845 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4846 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4848 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4849 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4850 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4851 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4852 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4853 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4854 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4855 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4857 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4858 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4859 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4860 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4861 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4863 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4864 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4866 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4867 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4868 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4869 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4870 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4872 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4873 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4874 (related to lock elision)
4875 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4876 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4877 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4878 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4880 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4881 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4882 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4883 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4884 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4885 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4886 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4887 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4888 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4889 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4890 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4891 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4892 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4893 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4894 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4895 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4896 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4897 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4898 contains a vector instruction exception.
4899 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4900 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4902 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4903 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4904 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4905 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4906 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4908 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4910 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4911 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4913 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4914 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4915 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4916 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4917 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4919 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4920 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4921 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4922 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4923 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4924 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4925 statically too large
4926 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4927 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4928 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4929 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4930 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4931 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4932 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4933 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4934 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4936 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4937 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4938 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4939 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4940 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4941 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4942 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4944 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4945 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4946 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4947 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4949 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4950 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4951 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4952 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4953 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4954 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4956 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4957 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4958 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4959 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4960 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4961 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4963 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4964 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4965 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4966 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4967 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4968 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4969 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4970 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4972 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4973 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4974 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4975 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4976 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4977 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4978 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4979 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4980 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4982 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4984 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4985 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4986 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4988 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4989 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4990 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4991 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4992 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4993 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4994 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4995 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4996 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4997 pthread_setaffinity_np
4998 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4999 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5000 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5001 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5002 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5004 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5005 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5006 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5007 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5008 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5009 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5010 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5012 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5013 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5014 for C99-based standards
5015 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5016 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5018 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5019 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5020 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5022 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5023 "inexact" exceptions
5024 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5026 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5027 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5028 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5029 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5031 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5032 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5033 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5034 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5035 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5036 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5037 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5038 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5039 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5040 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5042 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5043 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5044 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5045 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5047 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5048 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5049 error on 32-bit architectures
5050 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5051 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5052 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5053 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5054 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5055 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5056 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5057 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5058 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5060 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5062 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5063 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5064 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5065 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5067 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
5071 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5073 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
5074 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5075 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5076 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5077 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5078 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5079 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5080 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5081 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5082 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5083 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5084 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5085 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5086 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5087 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5088 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5089 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5090 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
5091 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5092 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
5094 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5095 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5097 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5098 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5099 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5100 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5101 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5102 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
5104 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5105 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5106 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5107 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5108 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5110 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5111 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5112 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5114 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5115 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5116 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5119 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5120 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5121 condition in some applications.
5123 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
5124 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5126 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5127 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
5128 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5129 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
5130 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
5132 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5133 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5134 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5135 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
5137 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5138 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5139 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
5141 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5142 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
5144 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5145 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5146 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5148 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
5149 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5150 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
5154 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5156 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5157 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5158 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5159 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5160 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5161 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5162 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5163 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5164 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5165 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5168 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5169 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5170 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5171 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5174 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5175 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5176 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5177 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5178 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5179 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
5181 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5183 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5184 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
5185 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
5187 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5188 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5189 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5190 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5191 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5192 effects being visible outside transactions.
5194 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5195 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5197 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5199 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5200 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5201 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5202 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5203 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5205 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5206 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5208 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5209 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5212 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5213 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5214 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5216 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5217 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5219 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5221 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5222 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5223 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5224 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5226 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5227 with newer versions of bison.
5229 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5230 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5231 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5232 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5233 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5234 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5235 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5236 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5237 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5238 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5239 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5240 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5241 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5243 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5244 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5245 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5246 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5247 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5251 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5253 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5254 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5255 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5256 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5257 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5258 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5259 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5260 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5261 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5262 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5263 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5264 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5265 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5266 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5267 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5269 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5270 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5271 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5272 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5273 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5274 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5275 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5276 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5277 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5278 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5280 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5281 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5282 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5283 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5284 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5286 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5288 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5289 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5291 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5292 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5293 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5294 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5295 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5296 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5298 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5301 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5302 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5303 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5304 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5305 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5306 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5307 test macros defined.
5309 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5311 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5312 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5313 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5314 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5315 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5316 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5319 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5320 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5321 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5322 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5325 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5326 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5327 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5329 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5330 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5331 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5332 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5334 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5335 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5336 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5337 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5338 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5339 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5340 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5343 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5344 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5345 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5346 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5347 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5348 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5349 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5350 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5351 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5353 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5354 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5355 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5356 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5357 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5358 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5360 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5361 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5362 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5363 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5367 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5369 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5370 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5371 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5372 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5373 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5374 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5375 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5376 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5377 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5378 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5379 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5380 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5381 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5382 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5383 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5384 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5385 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5386 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5388 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5389 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5391 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5392 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5393 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5394 extension which uses __block.
5396 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5397 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5398 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5399 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5400 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5402 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5403 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5404 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5405 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5408 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5409 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5410 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5411 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5412 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5414 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5415 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5416 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5418 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5419 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5420 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5423 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5424 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5426 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5427 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5429 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5431 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5434 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5436 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5438 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5439 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5440 for which the C library was built.
5442 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5443 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5444 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5445 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5446 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5447 in the following circumstances:
5449 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5451 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5452 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5454 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5455 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5457 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5458 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5460 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5462 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5463 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5465 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5467 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5469 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5471 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5472 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5473 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5474 disable some of those declarations.
5476 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5477 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5478 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5480 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5481 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5483 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5484 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5485 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5486 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5487 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5488 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5489 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5490 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5491 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5492 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5493 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5494 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5495 require recompilation.
5499 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5501 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5502 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5503 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5504 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5505 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5506 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5507 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5508 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5509 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5510 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5511 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5512 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5513 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5516 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5517 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5518 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5519 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5520 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5521 understands and accepts the risks.
5523 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5526 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5527 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5529 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5530 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5531 destructor calls to glibc.
5533 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5536 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5537 non-x86 architectures.
5539 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5541 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5543 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5546 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5548 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5551 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5552 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5554 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5556 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5557 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5559 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5560 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5562 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5563 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5564 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5566 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5567 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5568 attributes of a process.
5570 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5571 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5572 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5573 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5576 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5577 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5579 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5583 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5585 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5586 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5587 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5588 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5589 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5590 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5591 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5592 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5593 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5594 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5595 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5596 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5597 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5598 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5599 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5601 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5603 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5604 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5606 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5607 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5609 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5611 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5612 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5614 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5616 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5617 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5618 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5620 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5621 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5623 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5624 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5626 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5627 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5629 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5630 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5632 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5633 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5634 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5635 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5637 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5638 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5640 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5641 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5644 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5645 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5646 information in --help and --version output.
5648 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5649 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5650 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5652 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5653 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5654 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5655 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5656 when the mode is enabled.
5658 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5659 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5660 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5661 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5662 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5663 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5664 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5666 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5671 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5673 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5674 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5675 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5676 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5677 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5678 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5679 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5680 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5681 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5682 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5683 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5684 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5685 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5686 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5687 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5688 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5689 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5690 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5691 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5692 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5693 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5694 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5697 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5698 configuring glibc with:
5699 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5700 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5701 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5705 + define static_assert
5707 + do not declare gets
5709 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5711 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5712 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5713 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5716 + timespec_get added
5718 + uchar.h support added
5720 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5722 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5724 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5726 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5728 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5729 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5731 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5732 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5734 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5735 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5736 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5737 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5738 existing applications.
5740 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5741 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5744 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5745 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5746 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5748 * New locales: mag_IN
5750 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5751 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5752 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5753 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5754 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5756 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5758 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5761 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5763 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5764 without a previously built glibc.
5766 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5767 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5769 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5770 now supported for ARM processors.
5772 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5773 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5774 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5776 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5778 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5779 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5780 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5781 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5783 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5784 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5785 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5786 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5788 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5789 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5790 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5791 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5792 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5794 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5795 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5796 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5797 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5801 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5803 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5804 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5805 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5806 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5807 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5808 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5809 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5811 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5812 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5814 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5815 and support for initgroups lookups.
5816 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5818 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5819 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5821 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5822 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5824 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5825 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5826 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5828 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5829 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5831 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5832 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5833 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5835 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5836 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5838 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5839 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5841 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5842 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5844 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5845 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5847 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5848 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5850 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5853 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5855 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5856 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5858 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5859 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5861 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5865 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5867 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5868 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5869 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5870 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5871 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5872 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5873 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5874 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5875 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5876 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5878 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5879 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5880 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5881 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5883 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5884 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5885 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5886 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5888 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5889 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5891 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5892 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5894 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5896 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5897 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5899 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5900 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5901 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5902 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5906 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5908 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5909 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5910 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5911 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5914 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5916 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5918 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5919 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5920 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5924 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5926 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5927 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5928 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5929 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5930 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5931 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5932 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5933 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5935 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5937 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5939 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5941 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5942 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5943 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5945 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5946 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5947 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5948 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5949 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5951 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5955 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5957 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5958 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5959 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5960 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5961 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5962 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5964 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5966 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5968 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5969 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5971 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5972 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5974 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5976 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5977 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5978 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5979 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5981 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5982 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5984 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5986 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5988 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5989 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5991 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5992 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5994 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5995 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5997 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5998 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5999 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6000 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6001 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6002 necessity is every process again.
6003 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6005 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6006 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6008 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6009 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6011 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6012 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6013 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6015 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
6019 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6021 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6022 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6023 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6024 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6025 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6027 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
6028 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6030 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
6031 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6033 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
6034 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
6036 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6039 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6040 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6042 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6043 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6045 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6046 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6048 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6049 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6051 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6052 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6053 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6055 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
6057 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
6058 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6060 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6061 and extend existing format specifiers.
6062 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6064 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6065 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6067 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6068 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6069 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6070 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6071 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6072 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6076 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6078 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6079 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6080 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6081 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6082 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
6084 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
6085 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6087 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6088 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
6090 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6091 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6093 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6094 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6095 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6097 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6098 Implemented by Eric Blake.
6100 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
6102 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
6103 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6105 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6106 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6107 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6108 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6110 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6111 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6113 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6115 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6117 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
6121 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6123 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6124 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6125 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6126 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6127 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6128 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6129 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6131 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
6133 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
6135 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6136 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6138 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6140 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6141 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6143 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6144 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6146 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6147 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6148 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6150 * Faster memset for x86-64.
6151 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6153 * Faster memcpy on x86.
6154 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6156 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6157 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6159 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
6160 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6164 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6166 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6167 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6168 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6169 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6170 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6172 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6173 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6175 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6177 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6178 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6179 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6181 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6182 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6184 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
6185 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6187 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6189 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6190 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6192 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6193 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6195 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6196 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6198 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6200 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6201 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6203 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6204 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6207 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6208 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6212 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6214 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6215 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6216 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6217 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6218 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6219 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6220 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6223 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6225 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6227 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6231 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6233 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6234 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6235 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6236 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6237 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6238 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6239 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6240 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6241 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6243 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6244 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6245 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6247 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6248 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6250 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6252 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6254 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6255 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6256 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6257 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6258 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6260 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6261 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6262 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6263 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6265 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6268 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6270 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6273 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6275 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6276 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6280 * More overflow detection functions.
6282 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6283 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6285 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6286 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6287 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6288 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6289 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6290 by Masahide Washizawa.
6292 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6293 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6295 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6296 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6297 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6298 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6300 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6301 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6303 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6305 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6306 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6307 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6309 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6310 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6312 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6313 for compatibility with some other systems.
6315 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6319 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6321 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6322 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6323 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6324 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6325 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6326 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6328 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6330 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6332 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6336 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6338 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6339 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6340 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6341 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6343 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6347 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6348 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6350 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6351 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6352 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6354 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6355 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6357 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6359 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6361 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6362 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6365 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6366 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6367 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6369 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6370 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6372 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6373 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6374 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6375 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6377 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6378 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6379 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6380 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6382 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6383 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6384 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6385 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6386 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6390 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6391 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6393 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6394 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6396 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6397 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6399 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6400 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6402 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6405 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6408 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6413 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6414 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6415 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6416 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6417 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6418 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6419 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6420 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6421 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6423 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6424 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6425 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6427 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6429 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6430 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6432 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6433 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6435 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6437 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6438 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6440 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6441 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6442 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6443 of weak definition in ld.so.
6445 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6446 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6448 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6449 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6453 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6456 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6457 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6459 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6460 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6462 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6463 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6465 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6466 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6467 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6469 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6470 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6472 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6473 implementation of regex.
6475 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6478 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6479 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6481 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6482 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6483 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6485 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6486 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6488 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6489 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6490 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6492 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6493 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6495 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6496 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6499 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6503 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6504 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6506 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6507 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6511 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6512 128-bit long double format.
6514 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6515 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6517 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6519 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6521 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6524 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6525 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6527 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6531 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6532 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6534 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6535 support Unicode 3.1.
6537 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6538 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6540 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6542 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6543 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6544 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6546 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6547 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6549 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6550 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6552 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6556 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6557 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6558 in float, double, and long double format.
6560 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6561 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6562 128-bit long double format.
6564 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6565 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6566 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6567 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6569 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6570 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6571 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6573 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6574 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6576 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6577 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6579 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6580 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6581 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6583 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6584 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6586 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6587 of functions for Linux/x86.
6589 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6593 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6594 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6595 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6596 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6597 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6598 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6601 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6602 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6604 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6605 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6606 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6607 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6609 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6614 only lists the names of the supported locales
6618 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6619 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6623 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6624 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6625 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6626 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6627 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6629 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6631 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6633 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6635 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6636 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6637 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6639 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6640 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6642 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6643 changed from the default "C" locale.
6645 * The usual bug fixes.
6649 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6650 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6653 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6655 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6657 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6658 obviously requires a database library being available.
6660 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6662 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6664 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6665 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6667 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6669 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6670 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6673 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6674 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6675 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6677 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6678 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6680 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6681 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6682 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6684 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6685 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6686 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6687 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6689 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6690 structures for the wide character tables.
6692 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6694 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6696 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6698 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6701 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6703 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6705 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6707 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6709 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6711 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6712 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6713 implemented for Linux.
6715 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6716 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6717 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6720 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6723 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6737 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6739 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6741 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6743 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6745 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6747 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6749 * Update timezone data files.
6751 * lots of charmaps corrections
6753 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6758 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6759 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6760 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6761 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6762 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6763 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6765 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6766 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6768 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6771 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6772 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6774 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6776 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6779 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6781 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6782 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6784 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6787 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6788 functions from ISO C 9X.
6790 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6791 real valued functions.
6793 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6795 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6797 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6799 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6801 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6803 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6805 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6807 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6808 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6810 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6811 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6815 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6817 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6819 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6821 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6823 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6825 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6827 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6828 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6831 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6832 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6834 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6836 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6838 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6839 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6841 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6843 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6846 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6847 latest draft standards.
6849 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6851 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6852 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6853 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6854 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6855 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6856 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6857 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6858 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6859 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6860 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6861 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6862 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6863 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6864 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6865 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6866 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6867 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6868 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6869 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6870 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6872 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6873 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6874 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6875 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6876 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6883 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6884 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6885 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6886 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6887 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6889 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6890 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6891 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6892 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6893 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6894 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6898 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6899 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6905 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6906 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6907 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6908 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6910 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6911 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6912 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6922 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6923 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6925 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6926 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6931 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6932 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6935 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6936 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6940 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6941 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6943 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6944 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6945 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6947 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6948 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6952 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6953 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6957 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6958 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6959 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6960 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6961 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6963 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6964 ferror_locked REMOVED
6965 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6966 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6967 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6968 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6969 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6970 fflush_locked REMOVED
6974 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6975 fileno_locked REMOVED
6987 fputc_locked REMOVED
6988 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6989 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6994 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6998 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7000 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7001 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7005 getchar_locked REMOVED
7007 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7008 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7010 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
7011 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
7012 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7013 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7014 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7015 getutxent NEW: Unix98
7016 getutxid NEW: Unix98
7017 getutxline NEW: Unix98
7018 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7019 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7020 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7021 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7022 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7023 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7025 iconv_close NEW: iconv
7026 iconv_open NEW: iconv
7027 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7028 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7029 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7030 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7031 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7032 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7033 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7034 isastream NEW: STREAMS
7035 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
7036 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7037 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7038 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7039 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7040 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7041 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7042 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7043 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7044 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
7045 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7046 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7047 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7048 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7049 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7050 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7055 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7056 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7057 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7058 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7059 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7061 makecontext NEW: Unix98
7062 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7065 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7069 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7070 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7071 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7072 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7073 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
7074 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7075 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7076 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
7080 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
7082 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7083 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7086 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7087 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7088 profil_counter REMOVED
7089 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7090 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7091 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7092 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7094 putchar_locked REMOVED
7095 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7097 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7098 pututxline NEW: Unix98
7102 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7103 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7104 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7105 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7107 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7108 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7110 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7111 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7112 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7114 sendfile NEW: kernel
7115 setcontext NEW: Unix98
7116 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7117 setutxent NEW: Unix98
7119 sigignore NEW: Unix98
7120 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7121 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7122 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7123 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7124 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7125 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7126 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7127 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7131 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
7132 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7133 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7134 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
7135 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
7136 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7137 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7138 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7139 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7140 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7141 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7142 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7143 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7147 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7148 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7150 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7151 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
7152 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7153 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
7154 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
7155 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
7157 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7158 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7159 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7160 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7161 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7162 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7163 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7165 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7166 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7167 write_profiling REMOVED
7168 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7169 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7170 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7171 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7172 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7173 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7174 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7175 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7176 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7177 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7178 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7179 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7180 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
7181 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
7182 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7183 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7194 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7196 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7198 * rewrite of cbrt function
7200 * update of timezone data
7214 * add atoll function
7216 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7218 * fix math functions
7222 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7224 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7226 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7227 the ELF dynamic loader.
7229 * support for parallel builds is improved
7233 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7234 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7237 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7238 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7239 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7240 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7241 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7242 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7243 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7244 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7245 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7246 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7247 files in the ELF format.
7249 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7250 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7252 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7253 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7254 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7255 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7256 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7257 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7258 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7259 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7260 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7261 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7262 about dynamically linked binaries.
7264 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7265 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7266 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7267 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7268 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7270 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7271 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7272 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7273 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7274 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7276 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7278 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7279 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7280 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7281 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7282 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7283 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7284 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7285 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7286 NSS services available.
7288 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7289 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7290 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7292 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7293 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7294 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7296 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7297 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7298 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7299 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7301 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7302 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7303 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7305 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7306 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7307 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7309 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7310 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7312 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7313 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7314 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7315 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7317 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7318 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7319 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7321 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7322 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7323 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7324 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7325 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7326 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7327 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7328 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7330 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7331 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7332 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7333 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7334 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7335 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7336 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7338 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7339 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7340 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7341 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7342 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7343 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7345 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7346 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7348 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7349 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7350 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7352 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7354 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7355 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7356 their use is discouraged.
7358 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7359 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7361 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7362 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7364 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7365 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7367 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7370 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7371 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7372 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7373 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7374 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7376 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7377 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7378 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7379 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7381 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7382 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7384 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7385 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7386 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7387 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7390 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7391 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7393 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7394 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7396 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7397 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7398 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7399 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7401 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7403 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7404 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7405 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7407 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7408 for arithmetic and string handling.
7410 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7411 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7412 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7413 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7415 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7416 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7417 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7418 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7419 programs already written to use it.)
7421 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7424 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7427 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7428 a given effective group ID.
7430 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7431 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7432 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7433 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7435 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7436 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7437 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7438 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7439 doing the same thing.
7441 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7442 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7444 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7445 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7447 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7449 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7450 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7451 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7452 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7453 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7455 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7456 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7458 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7459 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7460 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7463 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7465 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7466 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7469 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7470 and writing the utmp file.
7472 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7475 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7476 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7477 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7479 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7480 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7482 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7483 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7486 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7487 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7488 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7489 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7491 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7492 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7493 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7495 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7496 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7497 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7500 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7503 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7506 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7508 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7509 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7510 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7514 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7516 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7517 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7519 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7520 want to put themselves in the background.
7522 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7523 run without an operating system.
7525 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7526 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7528 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7529 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7531 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7533 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7534 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7537 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7540 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7541 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7545 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7546 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7547 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7549 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7550 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7552 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7553 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7555 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7557 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7559 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7562 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7563 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7564 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7566 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7568 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7569 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7570 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7572 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7573 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7574 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7575 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7576 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7579 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7580 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7581 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7582 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7583 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7586 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7587 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7591 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7592 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7594 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7595 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7596 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7598 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7599 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7600 address of the last character written.
7602 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7603 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7605 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7606 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7608 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7609 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7610 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7611 you dereference this pointer.
7613 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7614 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7616 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7617 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7618 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7619 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7621 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7622 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7623 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7624 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7628 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7629 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7630 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7631 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7632 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7634 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7636 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7638 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7639 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7641 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7642 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7644 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7645 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7647 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7648 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7649 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7650 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7651 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7653 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7654 to the error code in `errno'.
7656 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7657 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7658 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7661 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7662 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7663 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7665 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7666 uniquely-named temporary file.
7670 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7671 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7672 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7674 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7677 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7678 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7680 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7684 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7685 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7686 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7687 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7689 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7690 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7691 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7693 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7694 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7696 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7697 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7698 made itself into a shared library.
7700 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7701 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7703 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7704 with limited length.
7706 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7708 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7710 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7712 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7713 function for traversing a directory tree.
7715 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7716 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7717 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7718 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7720 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7721 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7723 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7725 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7726 things to your strings.
7728 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7730 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7731 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7732 supporting those systems.
7734 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7735 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7736 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7737 configuration files.
7739 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7740 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7742 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7743 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7746 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7747 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7748 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7749 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7750 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7751 required storage is not available.
7753 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7754 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7756 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7757 latest files released from Berkeley.
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