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12 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
13 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
14 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
15 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
16 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
17 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
18 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
19 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
20 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf.
22 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
24 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
25 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
26 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
27 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
28 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
29 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
31 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
33 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
35 Security related changes:
37 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
38 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
39 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
40 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
41 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
42 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
44 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
46 [The release manager will add the list generated by
47 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
53 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
54 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
55 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
56 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
58 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
60 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
61 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
62 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
63 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
65 Security related changes:
67 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
68 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
69 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
70 portion of the contents of the heap.
72 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
74 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
75 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
76 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
77 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
78 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
79 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
80 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
82 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
83 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
85 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
86 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
87 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
88 gethostbyname and other functions
89 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
90 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
91 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
93 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
94 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
96 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
97 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
99 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
101 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
102 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
103 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
104 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
105 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
106 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
107 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
109 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
110 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
112 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
114 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
116 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
117 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
118 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
119 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
120 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
122 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
123 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
124 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
125 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
127 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
129 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
130 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
131 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
133 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
135 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
137 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
138 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
139 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
140 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
141 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
142 aux.S: No such file or directory)
143 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
144 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
145 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
146 coincides with offset change
147 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
148 length in fortify mode
154 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
155 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
156 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
157 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
158 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
159 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
161 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
162 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
163 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems.
165 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
166 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
169 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
170 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
171 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
172 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
174 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
175 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
176 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
177 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
178 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
179 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
180 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
181 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
182 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
183 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
184 validation by applications.
186 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
187 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
188 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
189 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
192 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
193 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
194 unpredictable output.
196 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
197 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
198 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
199 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
200 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
201 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
202 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
203 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
205 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
206 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
207 quality randomness from the kernel.
209 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
210 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
213 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
215 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
217 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
219 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
220 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
221 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
223 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
224 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
225 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
226 when libc.so is issued directly.
228 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
230 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
232 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
233 return different result with versioned "foo"
234 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
236 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
237 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
238 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
240 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
241 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
242 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
244 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
246 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
248 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
249 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
250 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
251 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
252 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
253 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
254 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
256 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
258 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
259 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
260 (breaks test isolation)
261 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
262 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
263 __convert_scm_timestamps
264 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
265 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
266 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
268 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyone 2038
269 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
270 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
271 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
272 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
273 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
274 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
276 [28936] build: nm: No such file
277 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
278 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
280 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
282 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
283 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
284 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
286 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
288 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
289 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
290 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
291 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
292 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
293 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
294 is promoted to global scope
295 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
296 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
297 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
299 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
301 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
303 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
304 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
305 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
306 before '__fortified_attr_access'
307 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
308 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
309 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
310 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
311 value for filling after \0
312 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
313 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
314 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
316 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
317 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
318 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
319 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
320 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
321 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
322 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
324 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
325 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
326 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
327 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
328 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
329 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
330 missing on microblaze with largefile
336 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
337 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
338 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
340 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
341 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
343 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
344 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
345 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
346 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
347 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
348 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
349 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
350 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
351 glibc, and must be installed.
353 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
354 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
355 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
357 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
358 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
360 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
363 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
364 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
365 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
366 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
367 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
368 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
370 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
371 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
372 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
375 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
376 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
378 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
381 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
383 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
384 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
385 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
387 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
388 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
389 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
390 object dependency cases.
392 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
393 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
394 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
395 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
397 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
398 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
399 return value is only used for its boolean status.
401 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
402 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
403 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
404 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
405 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
406 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
407 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
408 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
409 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
410 Restartable Sequences.
412 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
413 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
415 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
416 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
417 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
418 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
419 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
420 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
421 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
424 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
425 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
426 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
427 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
428 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
431 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
432 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
434 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
435 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
438 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
439 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
444 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
445 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
447 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
448 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
449 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
450 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
451 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
453 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
454 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
456 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
457 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
458 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
460 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
461 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
462 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
463 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
466 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
467 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
469 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
471 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
472 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
473 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
475 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
476 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
478 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
479 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
481 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
483 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
485 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
486 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
487 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
489 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
490 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
491 catching coredumps and backtraces.
493 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
494 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
495 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
497 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
498 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
499 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
501 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
502 support prelink PIE binaries.
504 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
506 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
507 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
508 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
509 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
510 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
512 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
513 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
514 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
515 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
517 Security related changes:
519 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
520 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
521 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
523 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
524 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
526 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
527 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
528 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
530 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
531 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
532 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
533 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
534 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
536 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
538 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
539 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
540 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
541 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
543 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
544 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
546 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
548 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
549 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
550 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
551 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
552 ID whose lifetime has not ended
553 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
555 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
557 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
558 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
559 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
560 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
561 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
562 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
563 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
564 --enable-initfini-array
565 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
566 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
567 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
568 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
569 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
570 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
572 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
573 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
574 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
576 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
577 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
578 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
580 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
581 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
583 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
584 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
585 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
587 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
588 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
589 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
590 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
591 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
592 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
593 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
595 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
597 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
598 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
600 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
601 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
602 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
603 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
604 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
605 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
606 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
608 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
610 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
611 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
612 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
613 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
615 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
616 systems with TIMESIZE=64
617 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
618 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
619 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
620 spurious NUL character on state reset
621 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
623 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
624 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
626 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
627 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
629 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
630 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
631 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
632 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
633 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
634 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
636 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
638 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
639 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
640 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
641 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
643 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
644 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
645 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
646 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
647 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
648 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
649 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
650 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
651 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
652 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
653 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
654 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
655 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
656 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
658 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
660 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
661 results (CVE-2021-3998)
662 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
664 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
665 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
667 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
669 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
670 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
671 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
678 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
679 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
680 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
681 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
682 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
683 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
684 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
685 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
686 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
687 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
688 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
689 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
690 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
691 potentially exposing application bugs.
693 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
694 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
695 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
696 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
698 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
699 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
700 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
701 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
702 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
705 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
706 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
707 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
709 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
710 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
711 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
712 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
714 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
716 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
717 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
718 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
719 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
720 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
722 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
723 --disable-scv configure option.
725 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
726 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
727 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
728 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
729 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
730 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
733 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
734 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
735 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
736 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
737 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
738 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
741 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
742 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
744 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
745 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
746 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
747 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
748 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
749 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
750 is currently a GNU extension.
752 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
753 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
755 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
756 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
757 although it is also present in other systems.
759 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
760 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
761 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
762 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
764 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
765 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
766 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
768 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
770 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
771 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
774 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
775 programs should use the equivalent standard function
776 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
778 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
779 programs should use the equivalent standard function
780 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
782 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
783 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
785 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
787 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
788 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
789 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
790 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
791 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
792 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
793 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
794 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
795 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
796 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
797 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
799 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
800 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
801 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
802 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
803 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
804 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
805 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
806 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
808 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
809 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
810 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
811 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
812 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
813 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
814 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
816 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
817 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
818 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
819 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
820 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
821 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
822 upgrade or downgrade process.
824 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
825 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
826 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
828 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
829 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
830 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
831 no longer have any effect on malloc.
833 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
834 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
835 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
836 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
837 this functionality back.
839 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
840 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
841 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
842 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
844 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
845 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
846 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
847 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
848 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
849 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
850 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
851 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
852 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
854 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
856 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
857 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
858 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
859 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
861 Security related changes:
863 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
864 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
865 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
866 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
868 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
869 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
870 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
872 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
873 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
874 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
876 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
878 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
879 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
880 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
881 given integer (closefrom)
882 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
883 name containing multi-byte character(s)
884 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
885 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
886 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
887 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
888 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
890 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
891 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
892 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
893 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
894 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
895 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
896 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
898 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
899 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
900 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
901 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
902 pthread_create and dlopen
903 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
904 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
905 when non-root user changes priority
906 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
908 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
909 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
910 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
912 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
913 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
915 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
916 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
917 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
918 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
920 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
921 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
922 the right free implementation
923 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
924 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
925 shm_open to pick wrong directory
926 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
927 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
929 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
930 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
931 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
932 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
933 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
934 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
935 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
937 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
938 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
940 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
941 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
942 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
943 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
944 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
945 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
947 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
948 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
949 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
950 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
951 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
952 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
953 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
954 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
956 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
957 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
959 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
960 information for the current directory
961 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
962 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
964 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
965 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
967 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
968 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
969 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
970 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
972 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
973 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
974 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
975 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
976 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
977 tries resolving them lazily
978 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
980 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
981 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
983 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
984 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
985 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
987 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
989 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
990 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
991 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
993 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
994 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
995 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
996 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
997 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
998 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
999 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1000 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1001 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1002 with n >= 0x80000000
1003 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1004 thread never allocated anything
1005 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1006 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1007 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1008 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1009 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1011 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1012 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1013 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1015 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1023 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1024 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1025 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1027 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1028 to change argv[0] string.
1030 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1031 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1032 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1033 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1034 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1035 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1036 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1037 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1038 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1040 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1041 information and library search path diagnostics.
1043 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1044 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1045 larger than fit in an integer.
1047 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1049 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1050 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1056 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1059 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1060 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1061 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1062 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1065 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1067 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1070 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1071 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1072 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1074 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1075 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1076 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1079 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1080 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1081 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1083 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1084 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1085 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1086 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1087 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1088 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1090 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1091 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1092 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1093 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1094 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1095 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1098 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1100 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1101 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1102 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1103 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1104 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1105 perform any adjustments.
1107 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1108 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1109 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1110 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1112 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1114 Security related changes:
1116 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1117 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1118 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1119 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1120 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1122 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1123 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1124 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1126 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1127 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1129 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1130 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1132 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1134 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1135 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1136 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1137 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1139 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1140 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1141 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1142 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1143 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1145 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1147 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1149 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1150 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1151 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1152 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1153 changing gnuc version
1154 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1156 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1158 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1159 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1160 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1161 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1162 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1163 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
1164 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1165 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1166 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1167 too much stack space
1168 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1169 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1170 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1172 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1174 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1175 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1177 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1178 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1179 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1180 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1181 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1183 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1184 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1185 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1187 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1188 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1189 at the end of a memory mapping
1190 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1191 by the caller to the kernel
1192 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1193 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1194 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1195 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1197 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1198 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1199 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1200 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1201 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1202 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1203 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1205 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1206 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1207 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1208 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1210 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1212 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1214 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1215 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1216 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1217 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1219 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1221 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1222 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1223 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1225 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1227 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1229 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1231 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1232 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1233 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1234 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1236 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1238 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1240 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1241 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1242 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1244 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1245 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1246 [27177] dynamic-link:
1247 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1249 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1250 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1251 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1252 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1259 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1260 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1261 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1263 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1265 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1266 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1267 Three ABIs are supported:
1273 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1274 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1276 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1277 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1279 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1280 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1281 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1284 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1285 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1286 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1288 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1289 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1290 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1292 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1293 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1294 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1295 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1298 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1299 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1300 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1301 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1302 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1303 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1305 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1306 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1308 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1309 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1310 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1311 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1312 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1313 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1315 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1316 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1318 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1319 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1320 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1321 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1322 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1323 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1324 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1325 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1326 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1327 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1328 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1331 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1333 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1334 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1335 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1336 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1337 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1338 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1339 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1341 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1342 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1343 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1344 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1345 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1346 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1347 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1348 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1349 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1351 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1352 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1353 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1354 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1355 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1357 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1358 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1359 was not declared in any header file.
1361 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1362 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1363 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1364 sigaction functions instead.
1366 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1367 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1369 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1370 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1371 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1372 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1375 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1376 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1377 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1378 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1379 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1381 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1382 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1383 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1384 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1386 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1387 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1388 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1389 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1390 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1391 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1392 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1394 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1395 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1396 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1397 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1398 flavor of secure RPC.)
1400 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1401 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1402 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1403 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1404 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1405 object, to enable the hooks.
1407 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1408 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1409 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1412 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1414 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1415 long double redirects.
1417 Security related changes:
1419 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1420 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1421 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1423 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1424 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1425 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1427 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1428 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1430 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1431 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1432 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1435 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1437 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1438 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1439 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1440 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1441 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1442 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1443 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1444 filtee has constructor
1445 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1446 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1447 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1448 character entities for infinity & pi
1449 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1450 segfaults in applications
1451 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1452 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1453 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1454 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1455 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1456 function with -mlong-double-64
1457 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1459 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1461 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1462 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1463 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1464 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1465 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1466 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1468 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1469 dynamically loaded dsos
1470 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1471 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1473 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1474 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1475 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1476 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1477 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1478 stale configuration forever
1479 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1481 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1483 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1484 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1486 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1487 on 32 bit and old kernel
1488 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1489 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1491 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1492 amount of sigset_t bytes
1493 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1495 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1496 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1497 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1498 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1499 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1500 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1501 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1502 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1503 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1504 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1506 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1507 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1508 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1509 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1510 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1511 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1512 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1514 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1515 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1517 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1518 exiting detached thread
1519 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1521 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1523 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1524 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1525 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1526 dependencies in audit mode
1527 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1528 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1529 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1530 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1531 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1533 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1534 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1536 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1537 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1539 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1540 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1541 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1542 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1543 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1544 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1545 corruption in memset
1552 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1553 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1554 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1555 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1556 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1557 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1559 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1560 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1561 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1562 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1564 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1565 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1566 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1568 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1570 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1571 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1572 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1573 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1574 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1575 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1576 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1577 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1579 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1581 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1582 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1583 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1584 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1585 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1586 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1588 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1589 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1590 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1592 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1593 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1594 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1595 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1597 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1598 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1599 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1600 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1601 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1602 made this no longer practical.
1604 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1605 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1606 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1607 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1610 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1611 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1612 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1614 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1615 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1616 using clock_gettime instead.
1618 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1619 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1620 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1621 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1622 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1624 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1625 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1626 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1627 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1629 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1630 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1631 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1632 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1633 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1634 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1636 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1637 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1638 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1639 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1642 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1643 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1644 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1646 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1649 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1650 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1651 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1652 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1653 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1655 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1656 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1657 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1658 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1659 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1660 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1661 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1662 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1664 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1665 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1667 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1668 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1669 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1670 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1671 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1672 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1674 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1676 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1677 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1678 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1680 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1681 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1682 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1684 Security related changes:
1686 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1687 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1689 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1690 environment variable during program execution after a security
1691 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1692 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1693 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1695 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1697 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1698 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1699 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1700 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1701 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1702 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1703 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1704 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1706 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1707 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1708 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1709 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1710 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1711 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1712 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1713 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1714 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1715 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1717 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1719 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1720 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1721 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1722 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1723 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1724 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1725 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1727 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1729 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1730 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1731 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1732 (stringop-overflow error)
1733 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1734 functions other can lead to crashes
1735 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1736 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1738 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1739 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1740 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1741 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1742 still can fail with an error
1743 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1744 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1745 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1746 initialized correctly
1747 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1749 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1750 value to an unsigned
1751 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1752 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1753 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1755 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1757 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1759 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1761 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1762 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1763 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1765 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1766 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1768 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1769 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1770 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1771 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1772 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1773 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1780 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1781 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1782 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1784 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1785 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1787 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1788 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1789 to the callback function.
1791 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1793 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1794 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1797 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1799 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1800 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1801 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1802 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1803 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1805 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1806 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1807 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1808 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1809 link time reference, is gone.
1811 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1812 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1813 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1814 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1815 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1816 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1817 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1818 the clock choice at initialization time).
1820 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1821 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1822 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1824 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1826 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1827 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1828 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1829 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1830 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1831 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1832 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1833 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1834 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1836 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1837 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1838 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1839 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1842 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1843 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1845 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1846 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1848 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1849 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1851 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1854 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1855 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1856 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1858 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1859 header have been removed.
1861 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1862 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1863 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1864 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1866 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1868 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1870 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1871 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1873 Security related changes:
1875 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1876 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1877 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1878 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1879 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1880 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1881 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1883 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1884 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1885 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1887 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1889 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1890 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1891 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1892 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1893 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1894 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1895 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1896 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1897 invalid input drops valid char
1898 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1899 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1900 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1901 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1902 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1904 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1905 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1906 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1907 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1909 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1910 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1911 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1912 for long double = double
1913 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1914 long double = double
1915 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1916 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1917 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1919 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1920 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1922 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1923 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1924 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1925 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1926 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1927 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1928 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1929 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1930 not the default "nor"
1931 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1932 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1933 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1934 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1936 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1937 unnecessary librt dependencies
1938 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1939 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1940 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1941 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1943 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1944 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1946 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1947 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1948 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1949 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1950 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1951 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1952 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1953 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1954 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1955 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1956 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1957 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1959 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1961 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1962 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1964 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1965 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1966 kernels and break testing
1967 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1968 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1969 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1970 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1971 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1972 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1973 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1975 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1976 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1978 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1980 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1981 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1982 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1983 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1984 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1985 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1986 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1987 always implemented in the same library
1988 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1989 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1990 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1998 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1999 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2001 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2002 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2003 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2004 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2005 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2006 configured location.
2008 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2010 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2011 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2013 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2014 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2015 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2016 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2017 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2018 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2019 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2020 process actually does not use HTM).
2022 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2023 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2024 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2025 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2026 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2029 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2030 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2031 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2032 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2033 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2035 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2036 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2038 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2039 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2041 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2042 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2043 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2044 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2045 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2046 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2047 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2049 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2050 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2051 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2053 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2055 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2056 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2058 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2059 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2060 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2061 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2063 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2064 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2065 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2066 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2069 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2070 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2071 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2072 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2073 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2074 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2076 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2077 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2078 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2079 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2080 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2082 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2083 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2084 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2086 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2088 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2090 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2091 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2093 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2094 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2096 Security related changes:
2098 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2099 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2100 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2102 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2103 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2104 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2105 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2106 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2108 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2109 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2110 or command injection issues in applications.
2112 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2114 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2115 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2116 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2118 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2119 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2120 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2122 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2123 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2124 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2125 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2126 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2127 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2128 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2129 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2130 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2131 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2132 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2133 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2134 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2135 pointer argument is non-NULL
2136 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2137 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2138 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2139 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2140 multithreads call popen
2141 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2142 and pthread_create fails.
2143 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2144 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2146 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2147 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2148 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2150 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2152 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2154 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2155 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2157 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2158 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2159 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2160 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2161 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2162 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2163 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2165 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2166 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2167 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2169 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2170 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2171 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2172 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2174 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2176 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2177 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2178 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2179 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2181 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2183 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2184 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2185 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2187 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2188 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2189 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2190 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2191 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2192 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2194 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2195 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2196 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2197 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2198 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2199 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2200 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2201 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2202 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2203 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2204 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2205 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2206 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2207 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2209 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2210 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2211 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2212 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2213 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2215 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2216 nearest rounding mode
2217 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2218 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2219 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2220 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2221 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2222 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2223 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2224 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2225 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2227 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2228 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2230 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2231 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2232 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2233 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2235 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2237 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2239 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2241 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2242 answers will be rejected)
2243 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2250 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2251 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2252 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2253 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2254 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2255 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2256 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2257 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2258 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2259 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2260 archive or binary locales.
2262 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2263 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2264 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2265 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2266 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2267 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2268 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2269 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2270 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2271 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2272 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2275 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2276 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2277 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2278 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2279 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2280 field) to indicate such support is required.
2282 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2283 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2284 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2286 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2287 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2289 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2290 fMxaddfNx functions.
2292 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2293 fMxsubfNx functions.
2295 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2296 fMxmulfNx functions.
2298 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2299 fMxdivfNx functions.
2301 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2302 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2303 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2304 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2307 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2308 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2310 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2313 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2314 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2315 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2316 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2317 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2318 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2319 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2320 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2322 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2323 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2324 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2325 the fstatat64 function.
2327 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2328 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2329 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2330 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2331 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2332 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2333 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2334 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2335 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2337 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2338 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2339 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2340 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2341 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2342 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2343 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2344 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2345 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2346 results in a load failure now.
2348 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2349 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2352 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2353 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2355 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2356 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2358 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2360 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2361 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2363 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2365 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2367 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2369 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2370 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2371 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2373 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2374 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2375 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2376 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2377 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2378 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2380 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2381 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2382 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2383 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2384 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2385 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2388 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2389 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2390 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2391 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2392 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2393 further explanation.
2395 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2396 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2397 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2399 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2401 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2402 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2403 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2405 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2406 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2407 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2408 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2410 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2411 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2412 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2413 for this function instead.
2415 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2416 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2417 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2419 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2420 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2421 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2422 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2424 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2425 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2426 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2427 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2428 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2430 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2431 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2432 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2433 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2434 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2435 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2438 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2439 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2440 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2443 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2444 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2445 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2447 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2448 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2449 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2450 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2451 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2452 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2454 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2455 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2456 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2457 behavior in a future release.
2459 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2461 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2463 Security related changes:
2465 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2466 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2467 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2468 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2470 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2471 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2473 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2474 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2477 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2478 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2479 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2481 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2483 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2484 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2485 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2486 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2487 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2488 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2489 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2490 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2491 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2493 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2494 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2495 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2496 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2497 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2499 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2501 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2502 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2503 scope with -O1 and higher
2504 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2505 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2506 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2507 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2508 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2509 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2510 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2511 horrible machine code)
2512 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2514 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2515 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2517 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2518 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2520 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2521 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2522 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2523 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2524 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2526 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2527 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2528 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2529 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2530 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2532 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2533 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2534 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2536 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2537 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2538 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2539 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2540 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2541 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2542 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2543 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2544 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2545 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2546 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2547 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2548 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2550 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2552 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2553 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2554 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2555 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2556 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2557 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2558 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2559 for Spanish with CLDR
2560 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2561 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2562 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2563 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2564 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2565 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2567 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2569 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2570 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2571 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2572 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2574 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2575 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2576 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2577 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2578 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2579 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2580 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2581 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2582 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2583 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2584 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2585 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2586 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2587 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2588 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2589 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2590 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2592 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2593 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2595 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2596 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2597 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2598 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2599 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2600 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2602 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2604 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2605 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2606 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2607 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2608 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2609 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2610 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2611 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2612 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2613 and libc build with -Os)
2614 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2615 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2616 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2617 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2618 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2619 that changes /etc/passwd
2620 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2622 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2623 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2624 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2626 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2627 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2628 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2629 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2630 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2632 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2633 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2635 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2636 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2637 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2638 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2640 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2641 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2642 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2643 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2645 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2647 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2649 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2651 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2653 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2654 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2655 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2656 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2657 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2658 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2659 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2660 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2662 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2669 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2670 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2671 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2672 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2673 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2674 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2675 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2676 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2677 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2679 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2680 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2683 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2685 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2687 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2688 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2689 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2690 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2691 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2692 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2693 from a security and performance perspective.
2695 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2696 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2697 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2698 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2700 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2701 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2702 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2703 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2704 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2706 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2707 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2708 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2709 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2712 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2713 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2714 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2716 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2718 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2719 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2722 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2724 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2726 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2727 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2728 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2730 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2731 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2732 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2733 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2734 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2735 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2736 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2738 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2739 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2740 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2741 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2742 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2743 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2744 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2746 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2747 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2748 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2749 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2752 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2753 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2754 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2755 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2757 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2758 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2759 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2761 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2762 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2763 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2765 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2766 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2767 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2773 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2775 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2776 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2777 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2778 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2779 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2780 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2781 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2782 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2783 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2786 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2787 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2788 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2790 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2791 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2792 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2793 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2794 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2795 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2796 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2797 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2798 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2799 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2800 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2801 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2802 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2803 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2804 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2805 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2806 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2807 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2808 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2809 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2810 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2811 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2812 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2813 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2814 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2815 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2817 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2818 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2820 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2821 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2822 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2823 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2824 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2825 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2826 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2828 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2829 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2830 exp10l for these functions instead.
2832 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2833 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2834 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2836 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2837 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2840 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2841 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2842 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2843 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2845 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2846 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2848 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2849 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2851 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2854 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2856 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2857 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2858 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2861 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2862 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2863 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2864 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2865 use, but predates the bits convention.
2867 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2869 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2872 Security related changes:
2874 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2875 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2876 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2877 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2880 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2881 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2882 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2883 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2885 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2886 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2887 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2890 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2891 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2892 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2894 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2895 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2896 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2897 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2899 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2900 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2901 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2904 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2905 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2906 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2907 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2908 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2910 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2911 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2914 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2915 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2916 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2918 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2919 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2920 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2922 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2923 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2924 small, instead of NULL.
2926 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2928 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2929 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2930 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2932 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2933 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2934 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2936 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2937 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2938 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2939 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2940 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2941 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2942 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2943 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2944 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2946 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2947 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2948 width Latin characters
2949 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2950 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2951 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2953 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2954 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2956 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2957 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2958 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2959 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2960 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2962 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2963 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2964 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2965 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2966 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2967 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2968 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2969 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2970 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2971 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2973 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2974 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2975 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2976 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2977 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2978 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2979 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2980 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2982 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2983 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2985 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2986 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2988 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2989 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2990 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2991 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2992 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2993 __regcall calling convention
2994 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2995 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2996 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2997 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2998 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2999 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3000 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3001 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3002 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3003 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3004 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3005 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3006 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3008 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3010 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3012 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3013 consistency check failures
3014 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3015 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3016 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3017 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3019 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3021 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3022 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3023 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3024 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3025 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3026 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3027 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3028 on memory allocation failure
3029 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3030 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3032 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3034 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3035 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3036 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3037 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3038 instead of EAI_NODATA
3039 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3040 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3041 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3042 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3044 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3045 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3046 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3047 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3048 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3049 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3050 allocation in syscall loops)
3051 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3052 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3053 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3054 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3055 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3056 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3057 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3058 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3059 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3061 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3062 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3063 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3065 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3066 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3068 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3070 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3071 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3072 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3073 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3074 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3075 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3076 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3077 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3078 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3079 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3080 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3081 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3082 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3083 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3084 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3085 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3086 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3087 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3089 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3091 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3092 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3094 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3095 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3096 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3097 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3099 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3100 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3101 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3102 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3103 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3104 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3105 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3106 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3107 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3108 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3109 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3111 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3112 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3113 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3114 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3115 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3116 the svid compat wrapper
3117 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3118 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3119 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3120 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3121 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3122 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3124 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3125 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3127 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3128 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3129 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3130 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3131 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3132 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3134 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3135 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3136 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3137 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3139 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3140 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3142 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3143 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3144 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3145 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3146 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3147 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3148 inside the ASCII printable range
3149 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3151 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3152 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3153 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3155 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3156 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3158 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3159 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3160 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3162 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3163 networking interface
3164 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3165 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3166 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3167 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3168 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3169 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3170 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3171 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3172 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3174 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3175 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3176 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3177 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3178 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3179 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3180 same as for Croatian
3181 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3182 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3183 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3185 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3187 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3188 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3189 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3190 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3191 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3193 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3194 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3195 modified in case of success
3196 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3197 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3199 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3201 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3202 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3203 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3204 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3205 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3206 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3207 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3208 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3210 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3211 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3212 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3213 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3214 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3215 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3216 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3217 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3218 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3220 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3221 elision and tunables
3222 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3224 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3225 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3226 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3228 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3229 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3231 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3232 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3233 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3234 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3235 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3236 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3237 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3238 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3239 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3246 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3247 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3248 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3249 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3250 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3251 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3252 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3254 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3255 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3256 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3257 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3258 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3259 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3260 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3262 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3263 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3266 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3268 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3269 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3270 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3272 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3273 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3274 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3275 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3276 object are still limited to six search domains.
3278 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3279 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3280 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3282 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3283 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3285 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3286 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3287 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3288 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3290 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3291 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3292 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3293 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3295 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3296 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3297 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3298 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3300 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3301 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3302 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3304 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3305 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3306 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3307 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3309 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3310 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3311 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3312 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3313 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3315 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3316 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3317 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3318 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3319 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3320 interfaces should be used instead.
3322 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3324 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3325 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3326 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3327 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3328 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3329 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3330 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3331 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3333 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3336 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3337 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3338 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3339 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3341 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3342 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3345 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3346 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3347 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3348 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3349 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3351 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3352 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3353 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3354 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3356 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3357 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3358 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3359 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3361 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3362 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3364 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3365 exported by accident.
3367 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3368 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3369 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3371 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3372 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3373 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3374 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3376 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3378 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3380 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3383 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3384 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3386 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3387 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3389 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3390 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3391 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3392 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3393 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3394 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3395 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3396 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3398 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3399 synced with the kernel:
3401 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3402 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3404 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3405 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3406 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3408 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3409 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3411 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3413 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3414 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3417 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3419 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3420 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3422 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3423 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3424 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3425 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3426 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3428 Security related changes:
3430 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3431 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3433 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3434 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3436 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3437 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3440 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3441 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3443 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3445 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3446 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3447 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3449 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3451 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3452 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3453 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3455 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3456 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3457 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3458 x86 and other generic code
3459 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3460 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3462 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3463 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3464 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3465 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3466 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3467 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3468 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3470 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3471 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3472 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3473 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3475 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3476 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3478 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3480 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3481 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3482 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3484 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3485 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3486 failures consistently
3487 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3488 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3489 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3490 frame-pointer on i386
3491 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3493 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3494 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3495 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3496 generic c code is used
3497 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3498 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3500 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3502 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3503 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3505 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3506 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3507 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3508 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3509 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3510 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3511 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3512 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3513 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3514 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3516 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3518 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3519 new posix_spawn implementation
3520 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3521 leads to lower CPU frequency
3522 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3523 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3524 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3525 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3526 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3527 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3528 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3529 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3530 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3531 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3532 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3533 not support gethostbyname4_r
3534 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3536 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3538 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3539 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3540 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3541 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3542 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3543 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3544 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3546 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3547 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3548 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3549 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3550 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3551 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3552 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3553 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3554 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3555 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3556 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3557 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3559 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3560 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3561 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3562 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3563 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3564 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3565 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3566 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3568 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3569 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3570 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3571 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3572 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3573 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3574 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3575 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3576 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3577 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3578 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3579 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3580 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3581 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3582 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3583 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3584 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3585 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3586 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3587 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3588 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3590 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3591 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3592 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3593 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3594 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3596 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3597 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3599 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3600 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3602 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3603 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3605 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3606 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3607 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3608 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3610 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3611 leading to relocation crash
3612 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3613 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3614 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3615 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3616 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3617 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3618 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3619 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3620 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3622 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3624 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3625 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3626 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3627 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3628 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3629 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3630 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3631 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3633 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3635 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3637 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3638 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3639 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3640 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3641 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3642 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3643 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3644 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3645 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3646 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3647 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3648 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3649 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3650 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3651 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3652 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3653 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3654 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3655 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3656 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3657 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3658 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3659 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3660 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3661 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3662 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3663 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3665 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3666 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3667 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3668 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3669 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3674 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3675 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3676 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3679 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3680 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3681 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3684 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3685 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3686 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3689 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3690 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3691 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3692 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3693 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3694 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3695 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3698 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3699 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3702 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3703 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3704 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3706 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3707 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3708 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3709 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3712 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3713 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3714 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3716 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3717 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3718 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3719 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3720 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3721 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3722 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3723 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3724 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3725 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3726 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3729 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3731 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3733 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3734 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3735 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3737 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3738 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3740 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3743 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3745 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3747 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3748 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3750 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3752 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3753 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3755 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3756 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3758 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3759 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3760 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3762 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3763 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3764 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3765 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3766 effects of the memory clear).
3768 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3769 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3770 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3771 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3773 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3774 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3775 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3776 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3777 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3778 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3780 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3783 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3784 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3785 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3786 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3787 as large as several megabytes.
3789 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3790 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3793 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3794 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3795 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3796 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3797 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3798 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3799 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3801 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3802 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3803 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3804 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3806 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3807 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3808 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3811 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3812 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3813 They were already unimplemented.
3815 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3816 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3817 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3818 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3820 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3821 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3822 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3823 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3824 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3826 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3827 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3828 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3829 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3830 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3832 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3833 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3834 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3835 did not reflect that.
3837 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3838 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3839 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3840 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3841 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3842 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3843 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3846 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3847 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3848 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3849 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3851 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3852 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3853 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3854 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3856 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3857 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3860 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3861 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3864 Security related changes:
3866 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3867 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3868 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3869 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3870 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3872 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3873 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3874 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3875 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3878 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3880 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3881 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3883 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3884 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3885 before it started waiting
3886 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3887 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3888 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3889 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3891 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3892 library linked with pthread
3893 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3894 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3895 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3896 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3897 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3898 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3899 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3901 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3903 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3904 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3905 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3906 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3907 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3908 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3909 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3910 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3911 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3913 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3914 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3915 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3916 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3917 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3918 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3919 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3920 causes a segmentation fault
3921 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3923 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3924 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3926 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3928 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3929 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3930 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3932 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3933 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3935 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3936 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3937 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3938 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3939 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3940 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3941 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3942 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3944 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3945 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3946 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3948 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3950 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3952 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3953 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3954 cause transition penalty
3955 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3956 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3957 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3958 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3959 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3961 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3963 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3964 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3965 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3966 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3967 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3968 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3970 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3972 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3973 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3974 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3975 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3976 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3977 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3978 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3979 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3980 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3981 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3982 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3983 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3984 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3985 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3987 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3988 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3989 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3990 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3991 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3992 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3993 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3994 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3995 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3996 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3997 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3998 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3999 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4000 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4001 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4002 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4003 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4004 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4006 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4007 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4008 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4009 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4010 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4012 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4013 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4014 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4015 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4016 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4017 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4018 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4020 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4021 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4022 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4023 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4024 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4028 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4029 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4030 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4031 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4032 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4035 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4036 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4037 been included in previous releases.
4039 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4040 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4042 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4043 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4044 instead of “union wait”.
4046 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4047 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4048 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4049 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4050 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4051 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4052 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4054 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4057 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4058 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4061 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4062 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4063 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4064 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4065 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4068 Security related changes:
4070 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4071 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4072 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4074 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4075 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4076 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4077 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4079 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4080 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4081 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4083 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4084 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4085 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4087 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4088 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4089 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4090 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4092 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4094 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4095 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4097 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4098 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4099 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4100 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4101 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4102 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4103 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4104 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4106 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4107 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4108 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4109 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4110 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4111 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4113 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4115 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4116 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4117 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4118 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4119 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4120 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4121 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4122 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4123 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4124 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4125 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4127 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4128 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4129 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4130 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4131 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4132 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4134 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4135 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4137 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4138 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4139 Romanian locale data
4140 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4142 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4143 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4145 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4146 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4147 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4148 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4150 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4152 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4153 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4154 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4155 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4156 when using RTLD_NEXT
4157 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4158 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4159 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4160 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4161 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4162 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4163 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4164 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4165 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4167 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4168 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4169 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4170 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4172 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4174 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4176 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4177 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4178 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4179 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4180 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4181 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4183 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4184 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4186 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4187 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4189 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4191 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4193 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4194 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4195 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4196 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4197 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4198 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4199 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4200 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4201 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4202 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4203 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4204 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4205 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4206 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4208 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4210 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4211 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4212 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4213 response to getaddrinfo
4214 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4215 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4216 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4217 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4218 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4219 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4221 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4222 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4223 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4225 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4226 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4227 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4228 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4230 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4231 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4232 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4234 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4235 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4236 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4237 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4238 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4239 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4240 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4241 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4243 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4244 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4245 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4247 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4248 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4249 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4250 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4251 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4252 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4253 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4254 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4255 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4256 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4257 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4258 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4259 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4261 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4262 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4263 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4264 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4266 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4267 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4269 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4270 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4271 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4272 AS not supporting AVX512
4273 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4275 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4276 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4278 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4279 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4280 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4281 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4282 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4284 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4285 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4287 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4288 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4289 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4290 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4291 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4292 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4293 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4294 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4295 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4297 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4298 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4299 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4300 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4301 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4302 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4303 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4304 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4305 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4306 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4307 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4308 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4309 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4311 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4312 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4313 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4314 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4315 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4317 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4318 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4320 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4321 "invalid" exceptions
4322 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4323 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4324 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4325 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4326 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4327 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4328 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4329 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4330 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4334 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4335 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4336 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4337 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4338 89, 16061, and 18568.
4340 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4341 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4342 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4343 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4344 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4345 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4346 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4348 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4349 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4350 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4352 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4353 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4354 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4355 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4356 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4357 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4358 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4360 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4361 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4362 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4363 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4364 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4365 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4366 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4369 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4370 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4371 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4372 independent of the GNU C Library.
4374 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4375 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4377 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4378 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4379 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4380 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4381 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4384 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4385 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4387 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4388 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4389 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4390 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4391 defining their own copy.
4393 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4394 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4395 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4397 Security related changes:
4399 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4400 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4402 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4403 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4404 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4405 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4408 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4409 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4411 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4412 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4414 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4415 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4416 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4418 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4419 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4420 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4421 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4422 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4423 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4424 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4425 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4426 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4427 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4428 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4429 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4430 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4432 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4434 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4435 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4436 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4437 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4438 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4439 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4441 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4442 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4443 overflow/underflow errors
4444 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4446 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4447 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4448 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4449 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4450 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4451 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4453 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4454 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4455 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4456 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4457 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4458 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4459 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4460 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4461 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4463 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4465 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4466 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4467 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4469 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4470 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4471 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4472 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4473 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4475 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4476 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4478 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4479 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4480 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4481 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4482 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4483 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4484 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4485 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4487 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4488 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4489 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4490 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4491 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4493 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4494 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4496 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4497 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4498 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4499 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4500 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4502 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4503 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4504 (related to lock elision)
4505 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4506 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4507 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4508 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4510 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4511 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4512 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4513 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4514 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4515 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4516 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4517 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4518 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4519 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4520 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4521 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4522 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4523 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4524 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4525 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4526 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4527 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4528 contains a vector instruction exception.
4529 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4530 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4532 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4533 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4534 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4535 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4536 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4538 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4540 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4541 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4543 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4544 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4545 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4546 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4547 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4549 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4550 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4551 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4552 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4553 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4554 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4555 statically too large
4556 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4557 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4558 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4559 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4560 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4561 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4562 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4563 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4564 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4566 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4567 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4568 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4569 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4570 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4571 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4572 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4574 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4575 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4576 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4577 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4579 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4580 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4581 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4582 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4583 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4584 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4586 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4587 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4588 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4589 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4590 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4591 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4593 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4594 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4595 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4596 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4597 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4598 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4599 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4600 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4602 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4603 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4604 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4605 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4606 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4607 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4608 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4609 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4610 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4612 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4614 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4615 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4616 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4618 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4619 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4620 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4621 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4622 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4623 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4624 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4625 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4626 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4627 pthread_setaffinity_np
4628 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4629 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4630 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4631 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4632 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4634 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4635 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4636 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4637 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4638 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4639 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4640 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4642 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4643 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4644 for C99-based standards
4645 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4646 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4648 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4649 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4650 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4652 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4653 "inexact" exceptions
4654 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4656 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4657 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4658 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4659 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4661 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4662 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4663 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4664 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4665 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4666 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4667 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4668 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4669 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4670 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4672 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4673 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4674 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4675 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4677 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4678 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4679 error on 32-bit architectures
4680 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4681 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4682 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4683 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4684 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4685 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4686 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4687 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4688 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4690 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4692 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4693 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4694 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4695 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4697 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4701 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4703 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4704 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4705 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4706 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4707 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4708 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4709 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4710 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4711 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4712 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4713 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4714 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4715 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4716 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4717 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4718 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4719 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4720 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4721 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4722 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4724 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4725 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4727 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4728 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4729 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4730 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4731 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4732 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4734 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4735 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4736 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4737 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4738 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4740 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4741 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4742 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4744 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4745 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4746 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4749 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4750 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4751 condition in some applications.
4753 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4754 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4756 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4757 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4758 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4759 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4760 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4762 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4763 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4764 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4765 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4767 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4768 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4769 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4771 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4772 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4774 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4775 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4776 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4778 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4779 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4780 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4784 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4786 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4787 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4788 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4789 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4790 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4791 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4792 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4793 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4794 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4795 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4798 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4799 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4800 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4801 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4804 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4805 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4806 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4807 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4808 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4809 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4811 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4813 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4814 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4815 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4817 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4818 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4819 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4820 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4821 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4822 effects being visible outside transactions.
4824 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4825 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4827 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4829 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4830 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4831 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4832 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4833 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4835 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4836 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4838 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4839 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4842 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4843 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4844 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4846 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4847 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4849 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4851 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4852 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4853 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4854 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4856 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4857 with newer versions of bison.
4859 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4860 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4861 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4862 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4863 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4864 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4865 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4866 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4867 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4868 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4869 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4870 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4871 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4873 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4874 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4875 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4876 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4877 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4881 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4883 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4884 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4885 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4886 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4887 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4888 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4889 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4890 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4891 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4892 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4893 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4894 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4895 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4896 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4897 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4899 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4900 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4901 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4902 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4903 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4904 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4905 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4906 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4907 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4908 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4910 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4911 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4912 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4913 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4914 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4916 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4918 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4919 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4921 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4922 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4923 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4924 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4925 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4926 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4928 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4931 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4932 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4933 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4934 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4935 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4936 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4937 test macros defined.
4939 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4941 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4942 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4943 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4944 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4945 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4946 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4949 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4950 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4951 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4952 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4955 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4956 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4957 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4959 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4960 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4961 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4962 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4964 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4965 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4966 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4967 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4968 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4969 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4970 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4973 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4974 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4975 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4976 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4977 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4978 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4979 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4980 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4981 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4983 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4984 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4985 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4986 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4987 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4988 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4990 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4991 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4992 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4993 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4997 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4999 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5000 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5001 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5002 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5003 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5004 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5005 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5006 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5007 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5008 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5009 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5010 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5011 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5012 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5013 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5014 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5015 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5016 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5018 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5019 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5021 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5022 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5023 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5024 extension which uses __block.
5026 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5027 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5028 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5029 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5030 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5032 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5033 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5034 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5035 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5038 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5039 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5040 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5041 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5042 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5044 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5045 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5046 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5048 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5049 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5050 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5053 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5054 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5056 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5057 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5059 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5061 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5064 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5066 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5068 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5069 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5070 for which the C library was built.
5072 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5073 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5074 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5075 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5076 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5077 in the following circumstances:
5079 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5081 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5082 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5084 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5085 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5087 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5088 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5090 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5092 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5093 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5095 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5097 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5099 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5101 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5102 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5103 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5104 disable some of those declarations.
5106 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5107 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5108 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5110 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5111 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5113 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5114 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5115 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5116 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5117 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5118 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5119 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5120 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5121 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5122 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5123 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5124 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5125 require recompilation.
5129 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5131 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5132 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5133 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5134 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5135 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5136 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5137 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5138 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5139 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5140 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5141 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5142 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5143 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5146 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5147 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5148 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5149 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5150 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5151 understands and accepts the risks.
5153 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5156 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5157 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5159 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5160 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5161 destructor calls to glibc.
5163 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5166 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5167 non-x86 architectures.
5169 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5171 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5173 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5176 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5178 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5181 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5182 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5184 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5186 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5187 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5189 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5190 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5192 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5193 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5194 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5196 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5197 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5198 attributes of a process.
5200 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5201 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5202 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5203 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5206 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5207 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5209 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5213 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5215 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5216 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5217 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5218 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5219 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5220 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5221 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5222 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5223 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5224 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5225 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5226 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5227 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5228 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5229 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5231 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5233 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5234 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5236 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5237 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5239 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5241 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5242 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5244 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5246 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5247 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5248 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5250 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5251 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5253 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5254 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5256 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5257 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5259 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5260 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5262 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5263 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5264 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5265 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5267 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5268 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5270 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5271 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5274 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5275 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5276 information in --help and --version output.
5278 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5279 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5280 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5282 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5283 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5284 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5285 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5286 when the mode is enabled.
5288 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5289 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5290 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5291 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5292 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5293 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5294 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5296 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5301 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5303 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5304 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5305 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5306 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5307 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5308 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5309 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5310 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5311 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5312 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5313 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5314 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5315 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5316 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5317 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5318 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5319 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5320 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5321 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5322 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5323 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5324 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5327 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5328 configuring glibc with:
5329 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5330 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5331 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5335 + define static_assert
5337 + do not declare gets
5339 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5341 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5342 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5343 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5346 + timespec_get added
5348 + uchar.h support added
5350 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5352 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5354 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5356 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5358 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5359 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5361 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5362 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5364 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5365 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5366 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5367 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5368 existing applications.
5370 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5371 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5374 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5375 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5376 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5378 * New locales: mag_IN
5380 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5381 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5382 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5383 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5384 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5386 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5388 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5391 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5393 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5394 without a previously built glibc.
5396 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5397 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5399 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5400 now supported for ARM processors.
5402 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5403 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5404 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5406 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5408 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5409 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5410 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5411 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5413 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5414 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5415 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5416 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5418 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5419 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5420 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5421 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5422 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5424 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5425 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5426 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5427 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5431 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5433 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5434 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5435 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5436 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5437 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5438 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5439 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5441 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5442 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5444 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5445 and support for initgroups lookups.
5446 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5448 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5449 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5451 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5452 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5454 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5455 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5456 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5458 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5459 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5461 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5462 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5463 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5465 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5466 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5468 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5471 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5472 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5474 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5475 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5477 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5478 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5480 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5481 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5483 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5485 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5486 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5488 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5489 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5491 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5495 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5497 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5498 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5499 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5500 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5501 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5502 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5503 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5504 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5505 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5506 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5508 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5509 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5510 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5511 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5513 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5514 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5515 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5516 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5518 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5519 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5521 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5522 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5524 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5526 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5527 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5529 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5530 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5531 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5532 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5536 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5538 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5539 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5540 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5541 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5544 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5546 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5548 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5549 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5550 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5554 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5556 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5557 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5558 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5559 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5560 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5561 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5562 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5563 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5565 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5567 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5569 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5571 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5572 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5573 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5575 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5576 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5577 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5578 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5579 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5581 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5585 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5587 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5588 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5589 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5590 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5591 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5592 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5594 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5596 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5598 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5599 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5601 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5602 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5604 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5606 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5607 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5608 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5609 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5611 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5612 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5614 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5616 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5618 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5619 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5621 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5622 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5624 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5625 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5627 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5628 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5629 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5630 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5631 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5632 necessity is every process again.
5633 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5635 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5636 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5638 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5639 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5641 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5642 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5645 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5649 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5651 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5652 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5653 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5654 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5655 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5657 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5658 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5660 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5663 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5664 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5666 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5669 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5670 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5672 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5673 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5675 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5676 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5678 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5679 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5681 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5682 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5683 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5685 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5687 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5688 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5690 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5691 and extend existing format specifiers.
5692 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5694 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5695 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5697 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5698 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5699 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5700 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5701 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5702 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5706 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5708 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5709 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5710 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5711 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5712 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5714 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5715 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5717 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5718 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5720 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5721 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5723 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5724 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5725 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5727 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5728 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5730 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5732 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5733 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5735 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5736 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5737 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5738 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5740 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5741 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5743 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5745 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5747 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5751 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5753 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5754 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5755 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5756 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5757 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5758 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5759 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5761 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5763 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5765 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5766 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5768 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5770 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5771 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5773 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5774 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5776 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5777 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5778 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5780 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5781 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5783 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5784 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5786 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5787 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5789 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
5790 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5794 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5796 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5797 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5798 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5799 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5800 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5802 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5803 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5805 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5807 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5808 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5809 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5811 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5812 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5814 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5815 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5817 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5819 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5820 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5822 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5823 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5825 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5826 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5828 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5830 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5833 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5834 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5837 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5838 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5842 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5844 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5845 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5846 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5847 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5848 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5849 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5850 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5853 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5855 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5857 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5861 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5863 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5864 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5865 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5866 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5867 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5868 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5869 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5870 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5871 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5873 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5874 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5875 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5877 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5878 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5880 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5882 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5884 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5885 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5886 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5887 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5888 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5890 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5891 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5892 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5893 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5895 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5898 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5900 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5903 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5905 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5906 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5910 * More overflow detection functions.
5912 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5913 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5915 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5916 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5917 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5918 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5919 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5920 by Masahide Washizawa.
5922 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5923 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5925 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5926 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5927 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5928 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5930 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5931 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5933 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5935 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5936 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5937 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5939 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5940 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5942 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5943 for compatibility with some other systems.
5945 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5949 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5951 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5952 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5953 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5954 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5955 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5956 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5958 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5960 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5962 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5966 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5968 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5969 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5970 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5971 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5973 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5977 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5978 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5980 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5981 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5982 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5984 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5985 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5987 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5989 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5991 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5992 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5995 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5996 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5997 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5999 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6000 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6002 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6003 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6004 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6005 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6007 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6008 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6009 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6010 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6012 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6013 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6014 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6015 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6016 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6020 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6021 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6023 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6024 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6026 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6027 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6029 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6030 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6032 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6035 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6038 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6043 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6044 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6045 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6046 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6047 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6048 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6049 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6050 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6051 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6053 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6054 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6055 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6057 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6059 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6060 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6062 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6063 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6065 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6067 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6068 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6070 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6071 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6072 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6073 of weak definition in ld.so.
6075 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6076 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6078 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6079 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6083 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6086 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6087 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6089 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6090 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6092 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6093 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6095 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6096 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6097 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6099 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6100 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6102 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6103 implementation of regex.
6105 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6108 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6109 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6111 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6112 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6113 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6115 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6116 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6118 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6119 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6120 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6122 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6123 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6125 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6126 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6129 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6133 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6134 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6136 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6137 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6141 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6142 128-bit long double format.
6144 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6145 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6147 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6149 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6151 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6154 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6155 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6157 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6161 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6162 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6164 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6165 support Unicode 3.1.
6167 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6168 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6170 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6172 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6173 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6174 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6176 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6177 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6179 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6180 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6182 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6186 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6187 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6188 in float, double, and long double format.
6190 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6191 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6192 128-bit long double format.
6194 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6195 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6196 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6197 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6199 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6200 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6201 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6203 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6204 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6206 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6207 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6209 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6210 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6211 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6213 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6214 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6216 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6217 of functions for Linux/x86.
6219 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6223 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6224 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6225 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6226 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6227 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6228 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6231 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6232 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6234 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6235 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6236 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6237 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6239 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6244 only lists the names of the supported locales
6248 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6249 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6253 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6254 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6255 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6256 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6257 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6259 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6261 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6263 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6265 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6266 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6267 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6269 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6270 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6272 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6273 changed from the default "C" locale.
6275 * The usual bug fixes.
6279 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6280 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6283 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6285 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6287 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6288 obviously requires a database library being available.
6290 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6292 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6294 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6295 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6297 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6299 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6300 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6303 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6304 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6305 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6307 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6308 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6310 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6311 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6312 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6314 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6315 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6316 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6317 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6319 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6320 structures for the wide character tables.
6322 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6324 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6326 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6328 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6331 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6333 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6335 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6337 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6339 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6341 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6342 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6343 implemented for Linux.
6345 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6346 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6347 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6350 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6353 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6367 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6369 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6371 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6373 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6375 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6377 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6379 * Update timezone data files.
6381 * lots of charmaps corrections
6383 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6388 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6389 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6390 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6391 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6392 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6393 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6395 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6396 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6398 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6401 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6402 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6404 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6406 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6409 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6411 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6412 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6414 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6417 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6418 functions from ISO C 9X.
6420 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6421 real valued functions.
6423 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6425 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6427 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6429 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6431 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6433 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6435 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6437 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6438 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6440 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6441 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6445 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6447 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6449 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6451 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6453 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6455 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6457 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6458 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6461 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6462 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6464 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6466 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6468 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6469 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6471 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6473 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6476 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6477 latest draft standards.
6479 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6481 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6482 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6483 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6484 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6485 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6486 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6487 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6488 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6489 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6490 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6491 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6492 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6493 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6494 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6495 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6496 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6497 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6498 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6499 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6500 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6502 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6503 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6504 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6505 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6506 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6513 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6514 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6515 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6516 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6517 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6519 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6520 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6521 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6522 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6523 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6524 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6528 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6529 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6535 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6536 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6537 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6538 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6540 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6541 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6542 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6552 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6553 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6555 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6556 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6561 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6562 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6565 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6566 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6570 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6571 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6573 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6574 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6575 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6577 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6578 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6582 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6583 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6587 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6588 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6589 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6590 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6591 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6593 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6594 ferror_locked REMOVED
6595 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6596 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6597 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6598 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6599 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6600 fflush_locked REMOVED
6604 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6605 fileno_locked REMOVED
6617 fputc_locked REMOVED
6618 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6619 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6624 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6628 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6630 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6631 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6635 getchar_locked REMOVED
6637 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6638 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6640 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6641 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6642 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6643 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6644 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6645 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6646 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6647 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6648 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6649 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6650 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6651 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6652 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6653 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6655 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6656 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6657 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6658 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6659 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6660 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6661 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6662 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6663 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6664 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6665 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6666 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6667 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6668 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6669 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6670 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6671 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6672 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6673 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6674 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6675 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6676 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6677 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6678 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6679 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6680 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6685 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6686 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6687 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6688 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6689 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6691 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6692 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6695 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6699 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6700 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6701 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6702 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6703 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6704 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6705 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6706 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6710 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6712 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6713 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6716 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6717 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6718 profil_counter REMOVED
6719 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6720 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6721 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6722 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6724 putchar_locked REMOVED
6725 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6727 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6728 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6732 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6733 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6734 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6735 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6737 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6738 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6740 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6741 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6742 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6744 sendfile NEW: kernel
6745 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6746 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6747 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6749 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6750 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6751 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6752 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6753 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6754 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6755 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6756 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6757 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6761 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6762 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6763 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6764 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6765 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6766 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6767 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6768 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6769 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6770 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6771 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6772 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6773 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6777 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6778 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6780 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6781 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6782 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6783 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6784 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6785 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6787 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6788 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6789 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6790 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6791 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6792 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6793 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6795 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6796 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6797 write_profiling REMOVED
6798 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6799 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6800 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6801 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6802 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6803 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6804 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6805 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6806 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6807 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6808 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6809 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6810 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6811 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6812 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6813 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6824 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6826 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6828 * rewrite of cbrt function
6830 * update of timezone data
6844 * add atoll function
6846 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6848 * fix math functions
6852 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6854 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6856 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6857 the ELF dynamic loader.
6859 * support for parallel builds is improved
6863 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6864 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6867 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6868 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6869 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6870 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6871 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6872 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6873 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6874 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6875 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6876 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6877 files in the ELF format.
6879 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6880 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6882 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6883 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6884 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6885 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6886 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6887 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6888 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6889 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6890 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6891 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6892 about dynamically linked binaries.
6894 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6895 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6896 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6897 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6898 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6900 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6901 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6902 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6903 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6904 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6906 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6908 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6909 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6910 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6911 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6912 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6913 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6914 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6915 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6916 NSS services available.
6918 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6919 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6920 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6922 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6923 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6924 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6926 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6927 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6928 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6929 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6931 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6932 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6933 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6935 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6936 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6937 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6939 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6940 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6942 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6943 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6944 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6945 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6947 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6948 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6949 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6951 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6952 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6953 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6954 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6955 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6956 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6957 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6958 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6960 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6961 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6962 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6963 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6964 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6965 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6966 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6968 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6969 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6970 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6971 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6972 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6973 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6975 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6976 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6978 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6979 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6980 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6982 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6984 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6985 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6986 their use is discouraged.
6988 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6989 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6991 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6992 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6994 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6995 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6997 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7000 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7001 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7002 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7003 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7004 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7006 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7007 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7008 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7009 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7011 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7012 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7014 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7015 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7016 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7017 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7020 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7021 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7023 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7024 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7026 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7027 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7028 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7029 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7031 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7033 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7034 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7035 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7037 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7038 for arithmetic and string handling.
7040 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7041 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7042 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7043 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7045 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7046 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7047 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7048 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7049 programs already written to use it.)
7051 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7054 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7057 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7058 a given effective group ID.
7060 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7061 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7062 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7063 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7065 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7066 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7067 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7068 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7069 doing the same thing.
7071 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7072 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7074 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7075 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7077 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7079 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7080 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7081 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7082 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7083 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7085 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7086 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7088 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7089 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7090 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7093 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7095 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7096 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7099 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7100 and writing the utmp file.
7102 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7105 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7106 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7107 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7109 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7110 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7112 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7113 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7116 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7117 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7118 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7119 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7121 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7122 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7123 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7125 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7126 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7127 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7130 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7133 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7136 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7138 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7139 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7140 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7144 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7146 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7147 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7149 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7150 want to put themselves in the background.
7152 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7153 run without an operating system.
7155 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7156 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7158 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7159 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7161 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7163 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7164 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7167 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7170 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7171 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7175 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7176 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7177 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7179 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7180 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7182 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7183 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7185 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7187 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7189 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7192 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7193 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7194 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7196 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7198 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7199 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7200 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7202 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7203 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7204 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7205 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7206 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7209 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7210 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7211 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7212 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7213 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7216 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7217 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7221 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7222 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7224 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7225 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7226 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7228 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7229 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7230 address of the last character written.
7232 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7233 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7235 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7236 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7238 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7239 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7240 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7241 you dereference this pointer.
7243 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7244 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7246 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7247 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7248 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7249 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7251 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7252 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7253 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7254 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7258 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7259 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7260 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7261 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7262 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7264 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7266 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7268 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7269 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7271 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7272 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7274 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7275 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7277 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7278 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7279 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7280 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7281 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7283 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7284 to the error code in `errno'.
7286 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7287 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7288 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7291 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7292 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7293 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7295 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7296 uniquely-named temporary file.
7300 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7301 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7302 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7304 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7307 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7308 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7310 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7314 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7315 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7316 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7317 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7319 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7320 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7321 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7323 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7324 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7326 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7327 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7328 made itself into a shared library.
7330 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7331 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7333 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7334 with limited length.
7336 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7338 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7340 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7342 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7343 function for traversing a directory tree.
7345 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7346 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7347 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7348 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7350 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7351 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7353 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7355 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7356 things to your strings.
7358 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7360 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7361 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7362 supporting those systems.
7364 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7365 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7366 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7367 configuration files.
7369 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7370 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7372 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7373 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7376 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7377 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7378 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7379 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7380 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7381 required storage is not available.
7383 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7384 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7386 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7387 latest files released from Berkeley.
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7398 of this document, or of portions of it,
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