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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 * PRIb* and PRIB* macros from C2X have been added to <inttypes.h>.
24 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
25 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
27 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
29 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
30 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
31 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
32 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
33 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
34 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
36 * The --disable-experimental-malloc is no longer available. The per-thread
37 cache can still be disable per-application using tunables
38 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
40 * The configure option --enable-tunables has been removed. The tunable
41 feature is now always enabled.
43 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
45 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
47 Security related changes:
49 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
50 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
51 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
52 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
53 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
54 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
56 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
58 [The release manager will add the list generated by
59 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
65 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
66 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
67 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
68 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
70 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
72 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
73 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
74 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
75 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
77 Security related changes:
79 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
80 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
81 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
82 portion of the contents of the heap.
84 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
86 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
87 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
88 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
89 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
90 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
91 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
92 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
94 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
95 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
97 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
98 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
99 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
100 gethostbyname and other functions
101 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
102 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
103 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
105 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
106 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
108 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
109 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
111 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
113 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
114 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
115 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
116 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
117 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
118 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
119 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
121 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
122 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
124 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
126 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
128 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
129 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
130 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
131 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
132 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
134 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
135 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
136 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
137 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
139 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
141 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
142 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
143 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
145 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
147 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
149 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
150 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
151 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
152 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
153 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
154 aux.S: No such file or directory)
155 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
156 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
157 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
158 coincides with offset change
159 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
160 length in fortify mode
166 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
167 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
168 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
169 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
170 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
171 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
173 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
174 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
175 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems.
177 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
178 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
181 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
182 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
183 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
184 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
186 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
187 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
188 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
189 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
190 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
191 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
192 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
193 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
194 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
195 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
196 validation by applications.
198 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
199 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
200 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
201 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
204 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
205 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
206 unpredictable output.
208 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
209 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
210 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
211 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
212 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
213 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
214 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
215 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
217 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
218 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
219 quality randomness from the kernel.
221 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
222 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
225 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
227 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
229 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
231 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
232 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
233 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
235 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
236 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
237 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
238 when libc.so is issued directly.
240 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
242 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
244 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
245 return different result with versioned "foo"
246 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
248 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
249 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
250 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
252 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
253 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
254 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
256 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
258 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
260 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
261 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
262 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
263 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
264 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
265 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
266 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
268 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
270 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
271 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
272 (breaks test isolation)
273 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
274 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
275 __convert_scm_timestamps
276 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
277 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
278 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
280 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyone 2038
281 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
282 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
283 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
284 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
285 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
286 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
288 [28936] build: nm: No such file
289 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
290 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
292 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
294 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
295 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
296 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
298 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
300 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
301 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
302 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
303 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
304 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
305 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
306 is promoted to global scope
307 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
308 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
309 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
311 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
313 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
315 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
316 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
317 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
318 before '__fortified_attr_access'
319 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
320 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
321 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
322 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
323 value for filling after \0
324 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
325 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
326 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
328 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
329 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
330 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
331 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
332 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
333 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
334 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
336 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
337 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
338 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
339 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
340 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
341 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
342 missing on microblaze with largefile
348 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
349 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
350 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
352 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
353 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
355 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
356 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
357 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
358 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
359 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
360 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
361 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
362 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
363 glibc, and must be installed.
365 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
366 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
367 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
369 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
370 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
372 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
375 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
376 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
377 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
378 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
379 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
380 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
382 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
383 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
384 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
387 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
388 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
390 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
393 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
395 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
396 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
397 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
399 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
400 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
401 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
402 object dependency cases.
404 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
405 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
406 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
407 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
409 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
410 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
411 return value is only used for its boolean status.
413 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
414 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
415 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
416 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
417 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
418 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
419 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
420 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
421 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
422 Restartable Sequences.
424 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
425 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
427 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
428 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
429 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
430 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
431 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
432 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
433 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
436 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
437 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
438 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
439 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
440 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
443 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
444 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
446 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
447 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
450 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
451 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
456 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
457 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
459 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
460 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
461 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
462 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
463 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
465 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
466 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
468 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
469 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
470 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
472 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
473 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
474 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
475 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
478 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
479 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
481 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
483 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
484 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
485 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
487 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
488 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
490 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
491 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
493 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
495 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
497 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
498 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
499 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
501 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
502 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
503 catching coredumps and backtraces.
505 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
506 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
507 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
509 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
510 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
511 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
513 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
514 support prelink PIE binaries.
516 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
518 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
519 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
520 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
521 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
522 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
524 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
525 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
526 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
527 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
529 Security related changes:
531 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
532 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
533 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
535 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
536 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
538 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
539 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
540 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
542 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
543 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
544 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
545 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
546 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
548 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
550 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
551 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
552 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
553 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
555 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
556 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
558 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
560 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
561 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
562 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
563 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
564 ID whose lifetime has not ended
565 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
567 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
569 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
570 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
571 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
572 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
573 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
574 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
575 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
576 --enable-initfini-array
577 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
578 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
579 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
580 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
581 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
582 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
584 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
585 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
586 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
588 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
589 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
590 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
592 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
593 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
595 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
596 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
597 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
599 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
600 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
601 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
602 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
603 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
604 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
605 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
607 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
609 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
610 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
612 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
613 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
614 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
615 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
616 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
617 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
618 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
620 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
622 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
623 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
624 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
625 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
627 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
628 systems with TIMESIZE=64
629 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
630 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
631 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
632 spurious NUL character on state reset
633 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
635 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
636 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
638 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
639 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
641 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
642 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
643 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
644 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
645 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
646 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
648 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
650 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
651 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
652 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
653 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
655 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
656 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
657 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
658 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
659 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
660 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
661 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
662 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
663 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
664 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
665 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
666 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
667 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
668 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
670 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
672 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
673 results (CVE-2021-3998)
674 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
676 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
677 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
679 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
681 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
682 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
683 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
690 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
691 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
692 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
693 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
694 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
695 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
696 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
697 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
698 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
699 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
700 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
701 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
702 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
703 potentially exposing application bugs.
705 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
706 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
707 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
708 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
710 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
711 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
712 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
713 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
714 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
717 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
718 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
719 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
721 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
722 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
723 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
724 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
726 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
728 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
729 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
730 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
731 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
732 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
734 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
735 --disable-scv configure option.
737 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
738 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
739 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
740 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
741 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
742 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
745 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
746 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
747 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
748 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
749 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
750 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
753 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
754 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
756 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
757 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
758 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
759 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
760 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
761 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
762 is currently a GNU extension.
764 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
765 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
767 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
768 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
769 although it is also present in other systems.
771 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
772 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
773 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
774 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
776 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
777 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
778 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
780 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
782 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
783 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
786 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
787 programs should use the equivalent standard function
788 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
790 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
791 programs should use the equivalent standard function
792 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
794 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
795 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
797 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
799 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
800 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
801 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
802 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
803 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
804 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
805 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
806 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
807 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
808 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
809 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
811 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
812 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
813 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
814 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
815 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
816 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
817 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
818 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
820 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
821 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
822 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
823 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
824 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
825 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
826 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
828 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
829 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
830 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
831 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
832 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
833 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
834 upgrade or downgrade process.
836 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
837 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
838 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
840 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
841 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
842 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
843 no longer have any effect on malloc.
845 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
846 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
847 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
848 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
849 this functionality back.
851 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
852 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
853 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
854 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
856 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
857 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
858 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
859 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
860 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
861 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
862 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
863 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
864 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
866 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
868 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
869 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
870 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
871 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
873 Security related changes:
875 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
876 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
877 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
878 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
880 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
881 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
882 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
884 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
885 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
886 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
888 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
890 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
891 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
892 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
893 given integer (closefrom)
894 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
895 name containing multi-byte character(s)
896 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
897 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
898 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
899 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
900 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
902 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
903 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
904 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
905 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
906 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
907 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
908 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
910 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
911 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
912 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
913 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
914 pthread_create and dlopen
915 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
916 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
917 when non-root user changes priority
918 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
920 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
921 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
922 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
924 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
925 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
927 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
928 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
929 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
930 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
932 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
933 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
934 the right free implementation
935 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
936 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
937 shm_open to pick wrong directory
938 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
939 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
941 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
942 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
943 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
944 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
945 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
946 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
947 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
949 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
950 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
952 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
953 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
954 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
955 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
956 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
957 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
959 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
960 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
961 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
962 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
963 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
964 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
965 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
966 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
968 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
969 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
971 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
972 information for the current directory
973 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
974 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
976 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
977 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
979 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
980 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
981 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
982 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
984 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
985 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
986 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
987 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
988 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
989 tries resolving them lazily
990 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
992 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
993 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
995 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
996 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
997 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
999 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1001 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1002 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1003 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1005 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1006 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1007 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1008 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1009 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1010 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1011 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1012 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1013 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1014 with n >= 0x80000000
1015 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1016 thread never allocated anything
1017 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1018 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1019 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1020 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1021 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1023 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1024 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1025 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1027 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1035 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1036 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1037 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1039 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1040 to change argv[0] string.
1042 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1043 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1044 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1045 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1046 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1047 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1048 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1049 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1050 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1052 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1053 information and library search path diagnostics.
1055 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1056 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1057 larger than fit in an integer.
1059 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1061 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1062 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1068 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1071 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1072 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1073 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1074 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1077 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1079 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1082 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1083 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1084 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1086 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1087 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1088 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1091 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1092 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1093 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1095 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1096 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1097 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1098 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1099 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1100 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1102 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1103 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1104 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1105 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1106 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1107 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1110 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1112 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1113 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1114 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1115 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1116 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1117 perform any adjustments.
1119 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1120 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1121 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1122 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1124 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1126 Security related changes:
1128 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1129 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1130 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1131 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1132 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1134 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1135 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1136 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1138 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1139 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1141 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1142 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1144 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1146 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1147 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1148 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1149 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1151 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1152 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1153 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1154 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1155 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1157 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1159 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1161 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1162 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1163 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1164 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1165 changing gnuc version
1166 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1168 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1170 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1171 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1172 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1173 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1174 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1175 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
1176 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1177 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1178 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1179 too much stack space
1180 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1181 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1182 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1184 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1186 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1187 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1189 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1190 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1191 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1192 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1193 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1195 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1196 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1197 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1199 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1200 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1201 at the end of a memory mapping
1202 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1203 by the caller to the kernel
1204 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1205 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1206 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1207 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1209 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1210 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1211 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1212 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1213 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1214 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1215 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1217 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1218 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1219 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1220 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1222 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1224 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1226 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1227 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1228 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1229 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1231 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1233 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1234 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1235 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1237 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1239 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1241 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1243 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1244 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1245 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1246 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1248 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1250 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1252 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1253 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1254 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1256 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1257 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1258 [27177] dynamic-link:
1259 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1261 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1262 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1263 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1264 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1271 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1272 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1273 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1275 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1277 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1278 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1279 Three ABIs are supported:
1285 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1286 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1288 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1289 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1291 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1292 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1293 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1296 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1297 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1298 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1300 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1301 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1302 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1304 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1305 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1306 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1307 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1310 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1311 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1312 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1313 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1314 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1315 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1317 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1318 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1320 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1321 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1322 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1323 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1324 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1325 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1327 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1328 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1330 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1331 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1332 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1333 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1334 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1335 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1336 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1337 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1338 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1339 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1340 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1343 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1345 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1346 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1347 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1348 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1349 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1350 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1351 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1353 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1354 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1355 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1356 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1357 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1358 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1359 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1360 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1361 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1363 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1364 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1365 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1366 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1367 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1369 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1370 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1371 was not declared in any header file.
1373 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1374 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1375 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1376 sigaction functions instead.
1378 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1379 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1381 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1382 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1383 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1384 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1387 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1388 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1389 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1390 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1391 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1393 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1394 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1395 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1396 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1398 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1399 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1400 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1401 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1402 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1403 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1404 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1406 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1407 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1408 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1409 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1410 flavor of secure RPC.)
1412 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1413 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1414 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1415 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1416 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1417 object, to enable the hooks.
1419 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1420 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1421 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1424 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1426 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1427 long double redirects.
1429 Security related changes:
1431 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1432 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1433 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1435 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1436 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1437 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1439 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1440 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1442 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1443 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1444 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1447 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1449 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1450 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1451 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1452 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1453 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1454 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1455 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1456 filtee has constructor
1457 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1458 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1459 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1460 character entities for infinity & pi
1461 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1462 segfaults in applications
1463 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1464 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1465 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1466 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1467 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1468 function with -mlong-double-64
1469 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1471 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1473 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1474 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1475 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1476 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1477 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1478 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1480 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1481 dynamically loaded dsos
1482 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1483 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1485 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1486 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1487 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1488 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1489 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1490 stale configuration forever
1491 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1493 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1495 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1496 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1498 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1499 on 32 bit and old kernel
1500 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1501 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1503 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1504 amount of sigset_t bytes
1505 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1507 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1508 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1509 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1510 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1511 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1512 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1513 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1514 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1515 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1516 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1518 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1519 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1520 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1521 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1522 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1523 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1524 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1526 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1527 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1529 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1530 exiting detached thread
1531 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1533 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1535 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1536 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1537 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1538 dependencies in audit mode
1539 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1540 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1541 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1542 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1543 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1545 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1546 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1548 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1549 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1551 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1552 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1553 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1554 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1555 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1556 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1557 corruption in memset
1564 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1565 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1566 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1567 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1568 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1569 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1571 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1572 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1573 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1574 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1576 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1577 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1578 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1580 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1582 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1583 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1584 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1585 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1586 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1587 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1588 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1589 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1591 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1593 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1594 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1595 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1596 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1597 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1598 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1600 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1601 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1602 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1604 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1605 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1606 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1607 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1609 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1610 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1611 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1612 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1613 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1614 made this no longer practical.
1616 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1617 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1618 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1619 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1622 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1623 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1624 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1626 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1627 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1628 using clock_gettime instead.
1630 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1631 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1632 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1633 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1634 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1636 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1637 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1638 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1639 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1641 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1642 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1643 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1644 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1645 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1646 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1648 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1649 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1650 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1651 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1654 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1655 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1656 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1658 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1661 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1662 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1663 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1664 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1665 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1667 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1668 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1669 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1670 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1671 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1672 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1673 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1674 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1676 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1677 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1679 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1680 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1681 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1682 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1683 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1684 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1686 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1688 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1689 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1690 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1692 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1693 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1694 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1696 Security related changes:
1698 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1699 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1701 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1702 environment variable during program execution after a security
1703 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1704 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1705 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1707 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1709 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1710 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1711 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1712 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1713 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1714 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1715 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1716 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1718 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1719 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1720 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1721 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1722 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1723 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1724 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1725 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1726 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1727 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1729 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1731 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1732 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1733 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1734 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1735 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1736 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1737 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1739 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1741 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1742 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1743 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1744 (stringop-overflow error)
1745 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1746 functions other can lead to crashes
1747 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1748 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1750 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1751 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1752 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1753 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1754 still can fail with an error
1755 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1756 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1757 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1758 initialized correctly
1759 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1761 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1762 value to an unsigned
1763 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1764 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1765 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1767 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1769 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1771 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1773 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1774 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1775 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1777 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1778 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1780 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1781 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1782 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1783 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1784 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1785 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1792 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1793 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1794 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1796 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1797 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1799 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1800 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1801 to the callback function.
1803 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1805 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1806 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1809 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1811 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1812 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1813 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1814 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1815 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1817 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1818 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1819 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1820 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1821 link time reference, is gone.
1823 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1824 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1825 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1826 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1827 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1828 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1829 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1830 the clock choice at initialization time).
1832 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1833 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1834 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1836 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1838 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1839 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1840 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1841 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1842 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1843 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1844 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1845 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1846 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1848 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1849 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1850 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1851 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1854 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1855 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1857 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1858 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1860 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1861 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1863 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1866 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1867 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1868 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1870 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1871 header have been removed.
1873 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1874 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1875 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1876 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1878 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1880 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1882 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1883 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1885 Security related changes:
1887 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1888 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1889 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1890 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1891 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1892 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1893 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1895 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1896 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1897 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1899 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1901 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1902 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1903 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1904 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1905 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1906 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1907 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1908 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1909 invalid input drops valid char
1910 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1911 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1912 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1913 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1914 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1916 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1917 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1918 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1919 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1921 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1922 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1923 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1924 for long double = double
1925 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1926 long double = double
1927 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1928 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1929 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1931 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1932 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1934 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1935 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1936 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1937 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1938 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1939 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1940 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1941 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1942 not the default "nor"
1943 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1944 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1945 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1946 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1948 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1949 unnecessary librt dependencies
1950 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1951 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1952 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1953 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1955 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1956 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1958 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1959 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1960 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1961 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1962 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1963 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1964 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1965 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1966 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1967 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1968 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1969 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1971 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1973 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1974 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1976 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1977 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1978 kernels and break testing
1979 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1980 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1981 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1982 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1983 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1984 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1985 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1987 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1988 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1990 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1992 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1993 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1994 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1995 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1996 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1997 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1998 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1999 always implemented in the same library
2000 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2001 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2002 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2010 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2011 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2013 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2014 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2015 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2016 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2017 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2018 configured location.
2020 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2022 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2023 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2025 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2026 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2027 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2028 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2029 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2030 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2031 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2032 process actually does not use HTM).
2034 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2035 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2036 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2037 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2038 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2041 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2042 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2043 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2044 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2045 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2047 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2048 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2050 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2051 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2053 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2054 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2055 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2056 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2057 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2058 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2059 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2061 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2062 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2063 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2065 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2067 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2068 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2070 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2071 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2072 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2073 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2075 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2076 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2077 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2078 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2081 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2082 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2083 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2084 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2085 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2086 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2088 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2089 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2090 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2091 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2092 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2094 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2095 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2096 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2098 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2100 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2102 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2103 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2105 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2106 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2108 Security related changes:
2110 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2111 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2112 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2114 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2115 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2116 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2117 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2118 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2120 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2121 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2122 or command injection issues in applications.
2124 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2126 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2127 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2128 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2130 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2131 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2132 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2134 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2135 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2136 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2137 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2138 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2139 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2140 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2141 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2142 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2143 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2144 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2145 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2146 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2147 pointer argument is non-NULL
2148 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2149 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2150 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2151 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2152 multithreads call popen
2153 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2154 and pthread_create fails.
2155 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2156 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2158 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2159 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2160 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2162 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2164 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2166 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2167 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2169 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2170 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2171 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2172 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2173 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2174 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2175 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2177 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2178 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2179 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2181 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2182 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2183 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2184 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2186 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2188 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2189 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2190 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2191 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2193 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2195 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2196 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2197 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2199 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2200 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2201 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2202 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2203 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2204 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2206 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2207 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2208 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2209 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2210 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2211 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2212 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2213 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2214 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2215 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2216 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2217 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2218 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2219 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2221 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2222 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2223 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2224 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2225 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2227 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2228 nearest rounding mode
2229 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2230 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2231 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2232 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2233 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2234 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2235 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2236 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2237 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2239 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2240 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2242 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2243 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2244 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2245 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2247 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2249 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2251 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2253 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2254 answers will be rejected)
2255 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2262 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2263 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2264 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2265 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2266 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2267 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2268 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2269 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2270 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2271 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2272 archive or binary locales.
2274 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2275 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2276 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2277 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2278 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2279 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2280 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2281 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2282 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2283 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2284 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2287 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2288 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2289 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2290 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2291 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2292 field) to indicate such support is required.
2294 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2295 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2296 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2298 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2299 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2301 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2302 fMxaddfNx functions.
2304 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2305 fMxsubfNx functions.
2307 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2308 fMxmulfNx functions.
2310 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2311 fMxdivfNx functions.
2313 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2314 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2315 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2316 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2319 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2320 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2322 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2325 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2326 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2327 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2328 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2329 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2330 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2331 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2332 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2334 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2335 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2336 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2337 the fstatat64 function.
2339 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2340 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2341 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2342 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2343 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2344 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2345 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2346 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2347 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2349 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2350 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2351 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2352 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2353 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2354 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2355 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2356 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2357 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2358 results in a load failure now.
2360 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2361 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2364 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2365 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2367 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2368 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2370 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2372 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2373 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2375 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2377 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2379 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2381 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2382 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2383 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2385 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2386 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2387 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2388 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2389 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2390 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2392 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2393 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2394 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2395 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2396 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2397 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2400 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2401 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2402 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2403 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2404 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2405 further explanation.
2407 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2408 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2409 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2411 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2413 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2414 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2415 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2417 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2418 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2419 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2420 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2422 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2423 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2424 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2425 for this function instead.
2427 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2428 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2429 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2431 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2432 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2433 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2434 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2436 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2437 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2438 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2439 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2440 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2442 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2443 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2444 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2445 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2446 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2447 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2450 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2451 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2452 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2455 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2456 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2457 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2459 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2460 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2461 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2462 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2463 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2464 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2466 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2467 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2468 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2469 behavior in a future release.
2471 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2473 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2475 Security related changes:
2477 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2478 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2479 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2480 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2482 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2483 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2485 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2486 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2489 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2490 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2491 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2493 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2495 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2496 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2497 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2498 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2499 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2500 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2501 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2502 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2503 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2505 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2506 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2507 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2508 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2509 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2511 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2513 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2514 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2515 scope with -O1 and higher
2516 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2517 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2518 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2519 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2520 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2521 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2522 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2523 horrible machine code)
2524 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2526 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2527 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2529 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2530 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2532 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2533 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2534 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2535 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2536 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2538 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2539 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2540 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2541 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2542 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2544 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2545 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2546 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2548 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2549 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2550 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2551 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2552 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2553 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2554 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2555 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2556 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2557 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2558 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2559 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2560 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2562 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2564 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2565 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2566 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2567 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2568 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2569 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2570 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2571 for Spanish with CLDR
2572 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2573 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2574 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2575 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2576 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2577 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2579 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2581 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2582 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2583 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2584 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2586 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2587 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2588 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2589 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2590 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2591 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2592 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2593 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2594 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2595 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2596 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2597 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2598 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2599 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2600 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2601 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2602 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2604 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2605 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2607 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2608 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2609 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2610 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2611 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2612 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2614 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2616 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2617 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2618 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2619 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2620 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2621 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2622 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2623 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2624 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2625 and libc build with -Os)
2626 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2627 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2628 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2629 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2630 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2631 that changes /etc/passwd
2632 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2634 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2635 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2636 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2638 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2639 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2640 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2641 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2642 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2644 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2645 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2647 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2648 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2649 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2650 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2652 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2653 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2654 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2655 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2657 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2659 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2661 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2663 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2665 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2666 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2667 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2668 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2669 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2670 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2671 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2672 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2674 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2681 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2682 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2683 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2684 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2685 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2686 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2687 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2688 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2689 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2691 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2692 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2695 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2697 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2699 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2700 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2701 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2702 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2703 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2704 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2705 from a security and performance perspective.
2707 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2708 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2709 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2710 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2712 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2713 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2714 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2715 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2716 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2718 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2719 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2720 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2721 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2724 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2725 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2726 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2728 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2730 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2731 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2734 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2736 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2738 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2739 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2740 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2742 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2743 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2744 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2745 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2746 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2747 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2748 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2750 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2751 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2752 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2753 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2754 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2755 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2756 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2758 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2759 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2760 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2761 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2764 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2765 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2766 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2767 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2769 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2770 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2771 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2773 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2774 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2775 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2777 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2778 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2779 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2785 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2787 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2788 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2789 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2790 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2791 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2792 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2793 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2794 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2795 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2798 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2799 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2800 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2802 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2803 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2804 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2805 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2806 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2807 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2808 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2809 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2810 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2811 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2812 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2813 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2814 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2815 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2816 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2817 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2818 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2819 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2820 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2821 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2822 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2823 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2824 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2825 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2826 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2827 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2829 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2830 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2832 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2833 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2834 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2835 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2836 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2837 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2838 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2840 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2841 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2842 exp10l for these functions instead.
2844 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2845 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2846 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2848 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2849 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2852 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2853 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2854 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2855 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2857 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2858 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2860 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2861 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2863 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2866 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2868 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2869 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2870 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2873 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2874 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2875 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2876 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2877 use, but predates the bits convention.
2879 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2881 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2884 Security related changes:
2886 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2887 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2888 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2889 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2892 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2893 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2894 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2895 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2897 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2898 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2899 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2902 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2903 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2904 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2906 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2907 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2908 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2909 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2911 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2912 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2913 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2916 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2917 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2918 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2919 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2920 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2922 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2923 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2926 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2927 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2928 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2930 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2931 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2932 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2934 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2935 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2936 small, instead of NULL.
2938 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2940 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2941 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2942 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2944 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2945 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2946 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2948 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2949 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2950 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2951 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2952 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2953 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2954 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2955 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2956 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2958 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2959 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2960 width Latin characters
2961 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2962 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2963 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2965 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2966 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2968 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2969 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2970 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2971 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2972 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2974 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2975 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2976 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2977 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2978 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2979 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2980 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2981 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2982 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2983 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2985 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2986 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2987 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2988 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2989 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2990 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2991 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2992 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2994 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2995 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2997 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2998 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3000 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3001 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3002 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3003 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3004 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3005 __regcall calling convention
3006 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3007 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3008 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3009 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3010 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3011 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3012 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3013 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3014 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3015 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3016 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3017 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3018 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3020 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3022 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3024 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3025 consistency check failures
3026 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3027 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3028 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3029 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3031 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3033 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3034 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3035 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3036 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3037 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3038 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3039 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3040 on memory allocation failure
3041 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3042 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3044 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3046 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3047 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3048 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3049 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3050 instead of EAI_NODATA
3051 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3052 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3053 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3054 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3056 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3057 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3058 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3059 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3060 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3061 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3062 allocation in syscall loops)
3063 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3064 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3065 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3066 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3067 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3068 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3069 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3070 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3071 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3073 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3074 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3075 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3077 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3078 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3080 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3082 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3083 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3084 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3085 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3086 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3087 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3088 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3089 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3090 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3091 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3092 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3093 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3094 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3095 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3096 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3097 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3098 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3099 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3101 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3103 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3104 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3106 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3107 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3108 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3109 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3111 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3112 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3113 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3114 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3115 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3116 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3117 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3118 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3119 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3120 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3121 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3123 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3124 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3125 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3126 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3127 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3128 the svid compat wrapper
3129 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3130 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3131 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3132 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3133 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3134 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3136 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3137 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3139 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3140 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3141 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3142 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3143 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3144 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3146 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3147 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3148 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3149 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3151 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3152 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3154 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3155 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3156 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3157 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3158 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3159 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3160 inside the ASCII printable range
3161 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3163 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3164 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3165 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3167 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3168 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3170 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3171 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3172 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3174 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3175 networking interface
3176 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3177 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3178 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3179 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3180 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3181 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3182 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3183 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3184 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3186 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3187 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3188 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3189 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3190 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3191 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3192 same as for Croatian
3193 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3194 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3195 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3197 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3199 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3200 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3201 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3202 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3203 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3205 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3206 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3207 modified in case of success
3208 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3209 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3211 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3213 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3214 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3215 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3216 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3217 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3218 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3219 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3220 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3222 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3223 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3224 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3225 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3226 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3227 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3228 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3229 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3230 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3232 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3233 elision and tunables
3234 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3236 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3237 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3238 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3240 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3241 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3243 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3244 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3245 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3246 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3247 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3248 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3249 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3250 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3251 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3258 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3259 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3260 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3261 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3262 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3263 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3264 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3266 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3267 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3268 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3269 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3270 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3271 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3272 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3274 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3275 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3278 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3280 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3281 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3282 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3284 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3285 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3286 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3287 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3288 object are still limited to six search domains.
3290 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3291 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3292 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3294 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3295 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3297 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3298 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3299 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3300 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3302 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3303 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3304 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3305 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3307 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3308 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3309 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3310 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3312 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3313 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3314 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3316 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3317 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3318 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3319 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3321 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3322 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3323 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3324 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3325 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3327 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3328 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3329 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3330 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3331 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3332 interfaces should be used instead.
3334 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3336 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3337 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3338 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3339 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3340 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3341 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3342 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3343 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3345 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3348 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3349 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3350 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3351 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3353 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3354 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3357 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3358 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3359 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3360 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3361 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3363 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3364 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3365 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3366 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3368 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3369 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3370 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3371 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3373 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3374 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3376 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3377 exported by accident.
3379 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3380 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3381 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3383 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3384 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3385 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3386 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3388 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3390 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3392 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3395 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3396 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3398 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3399 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3401 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3402 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3403 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3404 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3405 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3406 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3407 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3408 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3410 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3411 synced with the kernel:
3413 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3414 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3416 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3417 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3418 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3420 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3421 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3423 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3425 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3426 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3429 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3431 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3432 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3434 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3435 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3436 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3437 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3438 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3440 Security related changes:
3442 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3443 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3445 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3446 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3448 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3449 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3452 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3453 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3455 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3457 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3458 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3459 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3461 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3463 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3464 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3465 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3467 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3468 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3469 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3470 x86 and other generic code
3471 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3472 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3474 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3475 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3476 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3477 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3478 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3479 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3480 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3482 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3483 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3484 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3485 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3487 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3488 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3490 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3492 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3493 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3494 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3496 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3497 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3498 failures consistently
3499 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3500 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3501 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3502 frame-pointer on i386
3503 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3505 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3506 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3507 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3508 generic c code is used
3509 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3510 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3512 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3514 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3515 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3517 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3518 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3519 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3520 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3521 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3522 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3523 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3524 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3525 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3526 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3528 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3530 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3531 new posix_spawn implementation
3532 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3533 leads to lower CPU frequency
3534 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3535 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3536 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3537 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3538 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3539 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3540 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3541 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3542 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3543 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3544 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3545 not support gethostbyname4_r
3546 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3548 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3550 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3551 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3552 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3553 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3554 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3555 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3556 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3558 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3559 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3560 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3561 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3562 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3563 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3564 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3565 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3566 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3567 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3568 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3569 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3571 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3572 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3573 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3574 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3575 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3576 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3577 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3578 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3580 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3581 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3582 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3583 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3584 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3585 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3586 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3587 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3588 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3589 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3590 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3591 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3592 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3593 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3594 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3595 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3596 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3597 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3598 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3599 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3600 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3602 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3603 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3604 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3605 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3606 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3608 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3609 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3611 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3612 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3614 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3615 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3617 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3618 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3619 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3620 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3622 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3623 leading to relocation crash
3624 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3625 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3626 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3627 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3628 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3629 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3630 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3631 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3632 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3634 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3636 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3637 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3638 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3639 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3640 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3641 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3642 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3643 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3645 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3647 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3649 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3650 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3651 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3652 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3653 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3654 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3655 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3656 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3657 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3658 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3659 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3660 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3661 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3662 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3663 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3664 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3665 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3666 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3667 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3668 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3669 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3670 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3671 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3672 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3673 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3674 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3675 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3677 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3678 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3679 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3680 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3681 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3686 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3687 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3688 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3691 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3692 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3693 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3696 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3697 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3698 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3701 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3702 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3703 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3704 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3705 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3706 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3707 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3710 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3711 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3714 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3715 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3716 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3718 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3719 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3720 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3721 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3724 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3725 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3726 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3728 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3729 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3730 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3731 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3732 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3733 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3734 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3735 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3736 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3737 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3738 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3741 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3743 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3745 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3746 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3747 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3749 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3750 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3752 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3755 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3757 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3759 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3760 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3762 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3764 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3765 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3767 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3768 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3770 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3771 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3772 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3774 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3775 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3776 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3777 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3778 effects of the memory clear).
3780 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3781 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3782 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3783 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3785 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3786 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3787 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3788 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3789 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3790 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3792 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3795 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3796 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3797 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3798 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3799 as large as several megabytes.
3801 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3802 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3805 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3806 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3807 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3808 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3809 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3810 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3811 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3813 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3814 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3815 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3816 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3818 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3819 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3820 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3823 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3824 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3825 They were already unimplemented.
3827 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3828 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3829 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3830 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3832 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3833 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3834 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3835 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3836 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3838 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3839 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3840 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3841 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3842 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3844 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3845 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3846 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3847 did not reflect that.
3849 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3850 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3851 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3852 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3853 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3854 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3855 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3858 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3859 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3860 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3861 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3863 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3864 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3865 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3866 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3868 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3869 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3872 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3873 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3876 Security related changes:
3878 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3879 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3880 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3881 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3882 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3884 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3885 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3886 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3887 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3890 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3892 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3893 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3895 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3896 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3897 before it started waiting
3898 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3899 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3900 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3901 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3903 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3904 library linked with pthread
3905 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3906 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3907 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3908 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3909 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3910 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3911 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3913 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3915 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3916 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3917 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3918 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3919 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3920 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3921 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3922 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3923 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3925 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3926 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3927 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3928 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3929 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3930 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3931 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3932 causes a segmentation fault
3933 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3935 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3936 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3938 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3940 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3941 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3942 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3944 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3945 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3947 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3948 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3949 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3950 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3951 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3952 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3953 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3954 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3956 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3957 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3958 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3960 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3962 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3964 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3965 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3966 cause transition penalty
3967 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3968 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3969 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3970 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3971 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3973 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3975 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3976 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3977 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3978 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3979 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3980 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3982 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3984 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3985 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3986 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3987 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3988 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3989 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3990 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3991 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3992 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3993 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3994 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3995 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3996 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3997 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3999 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4000 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4001 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4002 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4003 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4004 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4005 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4006 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4007 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4008 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4009 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4010 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4011 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4012 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4013 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4014 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4015 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4016 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4018 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4019 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4020 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4021 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4022 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4024 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4025 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4026 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4027 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4028 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4029 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4030 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4032 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4033 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4034 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4035 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4036 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4040 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4041 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4042 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4043 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4044 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4047 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4048 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4049 been included in previous releases.
4051 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4052 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4054 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4055 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4056 instead of “union wait”.
4058 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4059 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4060 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4061 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4062 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4063 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4064 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4066 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4069 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4070 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4073 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4074 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4075 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4076 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4077 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4080 Security related changes:
4082 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4083 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4084 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4086 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4087 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4088 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4089 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4091 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4092 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4093 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4095 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4096 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4097 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4099 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4100 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4101 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4102 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4104 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4106 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4107 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4109 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4110 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4111 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4112 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4113 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4114 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4115 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4116 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4118 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4119 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4120 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4121 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4122 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4123 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4125 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4127 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4128 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4129 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4130 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4131 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4132 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4133 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4134 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4135 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4136 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4137 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4139 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4140 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4141 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4142 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4143 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4144 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4146 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4147 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4149 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4150 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4151 Romanian locale data
4152 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4154 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4155 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4157 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4158 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4159 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4160 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4162 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4164 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4165 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4166 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4167 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4168 when using RTLD_NEXT
4169 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4170 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4171 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4172 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4173 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4174 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4175 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4176 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4177 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4179 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4180 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4181 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4182 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4184 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4186 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4188 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4189 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4190 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4191 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4192 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4193 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4195 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4196 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4198 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4199 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4201 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4203 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4205 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4206 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4207 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4208 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4209 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4210 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4211 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4212 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4213 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4214 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4215 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4216 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4217 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4218 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4220 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4222 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4223 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4224 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4225 response to getaddrinfo
4226 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4227 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4228 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4229 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4230 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4231 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4233 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4234 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4235 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4237 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4238 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4239 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4240 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4242 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4243 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4244 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4246 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4247 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4248 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4249 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4250 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4251 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4252 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4253 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4255 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4256 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4257 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4259 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4260 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4261 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4262 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4263 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4264 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4265 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4266 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4267 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4268 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4269 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4270 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4271 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4273 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4274 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4275 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4276 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4278 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4279 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4281 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4282 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4283 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4284 AS not supporting AVX512
4285 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4287 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4288 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4290 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4291 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4292 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4293 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4294 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4296 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4297 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4299 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4300 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4301 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4302 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4303 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4304 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4305 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4306 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4307 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4309 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4310 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4311 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4312 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4313 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4314 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4315 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4316 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4317 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4318 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4319 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4320 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4321 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4323 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4324 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4325 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4326 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4327 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4329 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4330 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4332 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4333 "invalid" exceptions
4334 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4335 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4336 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4337 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4338 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4339 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4340 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4341 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4342 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4346 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4347 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4348 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4349 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4350 89, 16061, and 18568.
4352 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4353 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4354 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4355 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4356 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4357 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4358 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4360 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4361 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4362 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4364 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4365 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4366 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4367 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4368 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4369 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4370 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4372 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4373 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4374 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4375 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4376 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4377 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4378 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4381 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4382 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4383 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4384 independent of the GNU C Library.
4386 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4387 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4389 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4390 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4391 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4392 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4393 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4396 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4397 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4399 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4400 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4401 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4402 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4403 defining their own copy.
4405 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4406 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4407 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4409 Security related changes:
4411 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4412 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4414 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4415 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4416 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4417 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4420 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4421 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4423 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4424 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4426 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4427 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4428 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4430 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4431 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4432 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4433 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4434 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4435 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4436 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4437 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4438 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4439 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4440 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4441 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4442 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4444 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4446 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4447 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4448 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4449 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4450 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4451 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4453 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4454 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4455 overflow/underflow errors
4456 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4458 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4459 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4460 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4461 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4462 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4463 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4465 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4466 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4467 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4468 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4469 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4470 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4471 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4472 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4473 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4475 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4477 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4478 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4479 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4481 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4482 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4483 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4484 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4485 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4487 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4488 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4490 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4491 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4492 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4493 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4494 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4495 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4496 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4497 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4499 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4500 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4501 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4502 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4503 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4505 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4506 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4508 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4509 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4510 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4511 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4512 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4514 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4515 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4516 (related to lock elision)
4517 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4518 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4519 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4520 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4522 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4523 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4524 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4525 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4526 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4527 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4528 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4529 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4530 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4531 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4532 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4533 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4534 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4535 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4536 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4537 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4538 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4539 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4540 contains a vector instruction exception.
4541 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4542 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4544 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4545 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4546 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4547 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4548 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4550 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4552 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4553 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4555 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4556 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4557 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4558 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4559 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4561 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4562 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4563 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4564 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4565 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4566 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4567 statically too large
4568 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4569 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4570 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4571 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4572 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4573 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4574 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4575 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4576 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4578 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4579 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4580 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4581 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4582 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4583 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4584 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4586 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4587 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4588 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4589 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4591 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4592 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4593 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4594 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4595 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4596 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4598 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4599 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4600 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4601 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4602 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4603 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4605 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4606 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4607 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4608 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4609 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4610 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4611 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4612 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4614 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4615 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4616 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4617 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4618 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4619 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4620 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4621 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4622 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4624 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4626 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4627 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4628 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4630 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4631 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4632 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4633 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4634 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4635 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4636 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4637 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4638 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4639 pthread_setaffinity_np
4640 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4641 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4642 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4643 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4644 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4646 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4647 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4648 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4649 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4650 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4651 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4652 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4654 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4655 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4656 for C99-based standards
4657 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4658 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4660 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4661 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4662 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4664 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4665 "inexact" exceptions
4666 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4668 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4669 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4670 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4671 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4673 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4674 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4675 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4676 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4677 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4678 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4679 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4680 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4681 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4682 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4684 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4685 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4686 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4687 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4689 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4690 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4691 error on 32-bit architectures
4692 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4693 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4694 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4695 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4696 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4697 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4698 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4699 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4700 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4702 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4704 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4705 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4706 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4707 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4709 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4713 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4715 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4716 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4717 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4718 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4719 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4720 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4721 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4722 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4723 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4724 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4725 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4726 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4727 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4728 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4729 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4730 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4731 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4732 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4733 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4734 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4736 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4737 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4739 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4740 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4741 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4742 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4743 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4744 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4746 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4747 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4748 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4749 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4750 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4752 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4753 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4754 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4756 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4757 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4758 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4761 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4762 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4763 condition in some applications.
4765 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4766 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4768 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4769 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4770 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4771 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4772 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4774 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4775 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4776 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4777 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4779 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4780 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4781 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4783 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4784 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4786 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4787 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4788 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4790 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4791 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4792 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4796 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4798 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4799 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4800 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4801 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4802 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4803 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4804 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4805 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4806 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4807 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4810 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4811 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4812 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4813 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4816 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4817 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4818 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4819 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4820 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4821 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4823 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4825 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4826 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4827 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4829 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4830 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4831 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4832 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4833 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4834 effects being visible outside transactions.
4836 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4837 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4839 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4841 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4842 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4843 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4844 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4845 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4847 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4848 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4850 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4851 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4854 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4855 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4856 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4858 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4859 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4861 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4863 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4864 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4865 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4866 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4868 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4869 with newer versions of bison.
4871 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4872 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4873 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4874 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4875 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4876 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4877 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4878 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4879 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4880 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4881 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4882 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4883 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4885 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4886 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4887 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4888 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4889 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4893 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4895 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4896 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4897 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4898 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4899 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4900 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4901 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4902 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4903 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4904 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4905 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4906 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4907 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4908 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4909 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4911 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4912 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4913 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4914 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4915 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4916 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4917 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4918 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4919 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4920 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4922 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4923 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4924 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4925 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4926 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4928 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4930 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4931 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4933 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4934 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4935 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4936 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4937 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4938 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4940 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4943 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4944 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4945 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4946 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4947 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4948 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4949 test macros defined.
4951 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4953 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4954 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4955 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4956 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4957 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4958 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4961 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4962 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4963 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4964 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4967 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4968 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4969 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4971 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4972 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4973 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4974 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4976 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4977 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4978 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4979 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4980 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4981 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4982 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4985 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4986 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4987 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4988 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4989 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4990 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4991 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4992 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4993 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4995 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4996 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4997 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4998 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4999 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5000 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5002 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5003 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5004 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5005 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5009 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5011 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5012 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5013 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5014 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5015 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5016 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5017 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5018 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5019 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5020 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5021 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5022 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5023 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5024 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5025 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5026 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5027 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5028 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5030 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5031 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5033 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5034 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5035 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5036 extension which uses __block.
5038 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5039 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5040 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5041 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5042 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5044 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5045 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5046 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5047 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5050 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5051 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5052 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5053 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5054 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5056 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5057 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5058 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5060 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5061 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5062 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5065 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5066 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5068 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5069 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5071 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5073 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5076 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5078 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5080 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5081 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5082 for which the C library was built.
5084 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5085 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5086 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5087 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5088 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5089 in the following circumstances:
5091 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5093 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5094 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5096 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5097 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5099 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5100 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5102 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5104 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5105 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5107 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5109 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5111 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5113 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5114 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5115 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5116 disable some of those declarations.
5118 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5119 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5120 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5122 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5123 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5125 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5126 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5127 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5128 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5129 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5130 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5131 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5132 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5133 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5134 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5135 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5136 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5137 require recompilation.
5141 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5143 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5144 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5145 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5146 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5147 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5148 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5149 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5150 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5151 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5152 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5153 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5154 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5155 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5158 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5159 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5160 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5161 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5162 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5163 understands and accepts the risks.
5165 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5168 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5169 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5171 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5172 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5173 destructor calls to glibc.
5175 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5178 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5179 non-x86 architectures.
5181 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5183 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5185 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5188 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5190 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5193 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5194 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5196 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5198 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5199 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5201 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5202 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5204 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5205 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5206 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5208 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5209 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5210 attributes of a process.
5212 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5213 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5214 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5215 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5218 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5219 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5221 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5225 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5227 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5228 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5229 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5230 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5231 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5232 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5233 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5234 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5235 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5236 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5237 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5238 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5239 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5240 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5241 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5243 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5245 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5246 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5248 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5249 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5251 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5253 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5254 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5256 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5258 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5259 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5260 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5262 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5263 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5265 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5266 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5268 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5269 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5271 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5272 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5274 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5275 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5276 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5277 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5279 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5280 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5282 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5283 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5286 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5287 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5288 information in --help and --version output.
5290 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5291 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5292 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5294 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5295 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5296 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5297 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5298 when the mode is enabled.
5300 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5301 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5302 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5303 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5304 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5305 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5306 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5308 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5313 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5315 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5316 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5317 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5318 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5319 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5320 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5321 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5322 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5323 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5324 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5325 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5326 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5327 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5328 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5329 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5330 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5331 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5332 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5333 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5334 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5335 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5336 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5339 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5340 configuring glibc with:
5341 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5342 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5343 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5347 + define static_assert
5349 + do not declare gets
5351 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5353 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5354 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5355 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5358 + timespec_get added
5360 + uchar.h support added
5362 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5364 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5366 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5368 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5370 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5373 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5374 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5376 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5377 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5378 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5379 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5380 existing applications.
5382 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5383 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5386 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5387 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5388 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5390 * New locales: mag_IN
5392 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5393 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5394 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5395 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5396 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5398 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5400 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5403 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5405 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5406 without a previously built glibc.
5408 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5409 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5411 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5412 now supported for ARM processors.
5414 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5415 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5416 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5418 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5420 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5421 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5422 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5423 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5425 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5426 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5427 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5428 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5430 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5431 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5432 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5433 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5434 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5436 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5437 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5438 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5439 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5443 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5445 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5446 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5447 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5448 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5449 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5450 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5451 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5453 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5454 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5456 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5457 and support for initgroups lookups.
5458 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5460 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5461 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5463 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5464 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5466 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5467 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5468 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5470 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5471 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5473 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5474 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5475 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5477 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5480 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5481 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5483 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5484 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5486 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5487 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5489 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5490 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5492 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5493 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5495 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5497 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5498 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5500 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5501 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5503 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5507 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5509 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5510 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5511 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5512 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5513 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5514 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5515 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5516 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5517 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5518 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5520 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5521 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5522 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5523 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5525 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5526 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5527 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5528 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5530 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5531 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5533 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5534 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5536 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5538 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5539 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5541 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5542 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5543 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5544 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5548 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5550 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5551 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5552 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5553 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5556 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5558 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5560 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5561 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5562 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5566 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5568 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5569 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5570 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5571 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5572 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5573 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5574 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5575 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5577 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5579 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5581 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5583 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5584 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5585 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5587 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5588 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5589 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5590 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5591 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5593 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5597 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5599 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5600 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5601 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5602 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5603 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5604 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5606 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5608 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5610 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5611 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5613 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5614 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5616 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5618 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5619 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5620 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5621 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5623 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5624 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5626 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5628 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5630 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5631 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5633 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5634 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5636 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5637 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5639 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5640 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5641 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5642 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5643 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5644 necessity is every process again.
5645 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5647 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5648 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5650 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5651 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5653 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5654 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5655 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5657 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5661 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5663 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5664 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5665 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5666 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5667 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5669 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5670 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5672 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5673 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5675 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5676 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5678 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5681 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5682 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5684 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5685 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5687 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5688 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5690 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5691 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5693 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5694 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5695 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5697 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5699 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5700 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5702 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5703 and extend existing format specifiers.
5704 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5706 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5707 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5709 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5710 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5711 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5712 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5713 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5714 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5718 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5720 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5721 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5722 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5723 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5724 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5726 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5727 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5729 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5730 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5732 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5733 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5735 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5736 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5737 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5739 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5740 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5742 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5744 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5745 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5747 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5748 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5749 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5750 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5752 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5753 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5755 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5757 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5759 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5763 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5765 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5766 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5767 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5768 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5769 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5770 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5771 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5773 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5775 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5777 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5778 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5780 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5782 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5783 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5785 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5786 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5788 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5789 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5790 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5792 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5793 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5795 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5796 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5798 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5799 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5801 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
5802 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5806 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5808 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5809 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5810 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5811 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5812 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5814 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5815 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5817 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5819 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5820 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5821 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5823 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5824 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5826 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5827 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5829 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5831 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5832 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5834 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5835 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5837 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5838 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5840 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5842 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5843 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5845 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5846 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5849 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5850 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5854 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5856 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5857 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5858 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5859 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5860 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5861 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5862 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5865 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5867 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5869 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5873 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5875 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5876 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5877 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5878 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5879 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5880 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5881 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5882 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5883 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5885 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5886 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5887 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5889 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5890 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5892 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5894 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5896 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5897 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5898 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5899 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5900 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5902 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5903 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5904 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5905 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5907 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5910 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5912 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5915 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5917 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5918 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5922 * More overflow detection functions.
5924 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5925 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5927 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5928 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5929 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5930 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5931 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5932 by Masahide Washizawa.
5934 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5935 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5937 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5938 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5939 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5940 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5942 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5943 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5945 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5947 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5948 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5949 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5951 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5952 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5954 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5955 for compatibility with some other systems.
5957 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5961 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5963 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5964 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5965 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5966 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5967 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5968 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5970 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5972 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5974 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5978 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5980 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5981 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5982 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5983 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5985 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5989 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5990 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5992 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5993 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5994 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5996 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5997 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5999 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6001 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6003 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6004 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6007 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6008 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6009 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6011 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6012 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6014 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6015 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6016 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6017 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6019 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6020 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6021 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6022 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6024 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6025 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6026 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6027 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6028 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6032 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6033 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6035 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6036 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6038 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6039 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6041 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6042 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6044 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6047 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6050 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6055 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6056 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6057 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6058 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6059 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6060 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6061 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6062 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6063 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6065 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6066 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6067 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6069 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6071 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6072 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6074 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6075 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6077 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6079 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6080 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6082 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6083 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6084 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6085 of weak definition in ld.so.
6087 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6088 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6090 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6091 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6095 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6098 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6099 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6101 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6102 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6104 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6105 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6107 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6108 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6109 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6111 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6112 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6114 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6115 implementation of regex.
6117 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6120 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6121 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6123 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6124 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6125 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6127 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6128 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6130 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6131 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6132 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6134 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6135 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6137 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6138 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6141 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6145 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6146 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6148 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6149 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6153 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6154 128-bit long double format.
6156 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6157 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6159 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6161 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6163 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6166 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6167 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6169 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6173 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6174 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6176 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6177 support Unicode 3.1.
6179 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6180 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6182 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6184 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6185 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6186 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6188 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6189 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6191 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6192 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6194 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6198 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6199 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6200 in float, double, and long double format.
6202 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6203 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6204 128-bit long double format.
6206 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6207 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6208 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6209 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6211 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6212 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6213 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6215 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6216 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6218 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6219 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6221 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6222 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6223 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6225 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6226 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6228 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6229 of functions for Linux/x86.
6231 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6235 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6236 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6237 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6238 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6239 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6240 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6243 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6244 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6246 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6247 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6248 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6249 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6251 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6256 only lists the names of the supported locales
6260 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6261 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6265 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6266 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6267 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6268 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6269 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6271 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6273 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6275 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6277 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6278 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6279 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6281 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6282 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6284 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6285 changed from the default "C" locale.
6287 * The usual bug fixes.
6291 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6292 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6295 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6297 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6299 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6300 obviously requires a database library being available.
6302 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6304 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6306 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6307 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6309 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6311 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6312 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6315 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6316 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6317 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6319 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6320 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6322 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6323 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6324 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6326 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6327 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6328 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6329 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6331 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6332 structures for the wide character tables.
6334 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6336 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6338 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6340 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6343 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6345 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6347 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6349 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6351 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6353 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6354 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6355 implemented for Linux.
6357 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6358 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6359 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6362 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6365 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6379 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6381 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6383 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6385 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6387 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6389 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6391 * Update timezone data files.
6393 * lots of charmaps corrections
6395 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6400 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6401 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6402 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6403 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6404 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6405 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6407 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6408 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6410 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6413 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6414 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6416 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6418 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6421 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6423 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6424 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6426 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6429 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6430 functions from ISO C 9X.
6432 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6433 real valued functions.
6435 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6437 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6439 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6441 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6443 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6445 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6447 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6449 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6450 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6452 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6453 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6457 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6459 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6461 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6463 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6465 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6467 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6469 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6470 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6473 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6474 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6476 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6478 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6480 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6481 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6483 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6485 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6488 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6489 latest draft standards.
6491 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6493 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6494 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6495 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6496 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6497 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6498 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6499 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6500 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6501 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6502 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6503 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6504 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6505 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6506 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6507 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6508 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6509 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6510 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6511 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6512 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6514 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6515 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6516 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6517 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6518 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6525 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6526 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6527 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6528 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6529 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6531 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6532 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6533 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6534 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6535 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6536 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6540 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6541 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6547 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6548 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6549 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6550 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6552 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6553 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6554 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6564 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6565 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6567 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6568 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6573 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6574 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6577 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6578 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6582 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6583 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6585 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6586 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6587 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6589 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6590 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6594 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6595 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6599 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6600 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6601 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6602 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6603 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6605 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6606 ferror_locked REMOVED
6607 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6608 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6609 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6610 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6611 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6612 fflush_locked REMOVED
6616 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6617 fileno_locked REMOVED
6629 fputc_locked REMOVED
6630 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6631 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6636 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6640 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6642 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6643 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6647 getchar_locked REMOVED
6649 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6650 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6652 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6653 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6654 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6655 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6656 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6657 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6658 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6659 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6660 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6661 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6662 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6663 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6664 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6665 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6667 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6668 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6669 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6670 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6671 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6672 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6673 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6674 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6675 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6676 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6677 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6678 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6679 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6680 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6681 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6682 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6683 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6684 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6685 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6686 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6687 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6688 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6689 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6690 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6691 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6692 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6697 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6698 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6699 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6700 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6701 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6703 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6704 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6707 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6711 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6712 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6713 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6714 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6715 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6716 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6717 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6718 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6722 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6724 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6725 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6728 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6729 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6730 profil_counter REMOVED
6731 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6732 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6733 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6734 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6736 putchar_locked REMOVED
6737 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6739 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6740 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6744 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6745 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6746 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6747 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6749 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6750 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6752 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6753 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6754 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6756 sendfile NEW: kernel
6757 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6758 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6759 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6761 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6762 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6763 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6764 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6765 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6766 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6767 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6768 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6769 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6773 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6774 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6775 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6776 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6777 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6778 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6779 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6780 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6781 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6782 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6783 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6784 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6785 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6789 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6790 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6792 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6793 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6794 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6795 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6796 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6797 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6799 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6800 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6801 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6802 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6803 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6804 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6805 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6807 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6808 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6809 write_profiling REMOVED
6810 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6811 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6812 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6813 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6814 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6815 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6816 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6817 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6818 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6819 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6820 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6821 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6822 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6823 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6824 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6825 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6836 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6838 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6840 * rewrite of cbrt function
6842 * update of timezone data
6856 * add atoll function
6858 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6860 * fix math functions
6864 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6866 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6868 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6869 the ELF dynamic loader.
6871 * support for parallel builds is improved
6875 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6876 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6879 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6880 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6881 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6882 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6883 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6884 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6885 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6886 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6887 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6888 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6889 files in the ELF format.
6891 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6892 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6894 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6895 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6896 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6897 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6898 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6899 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6900 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6901 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6902 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6903 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6904 about dynamically linked binaries.
6906 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6907 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6908 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6909 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6910 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6912 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6913 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6914 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6915 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6916 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6918 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6920 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6921 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6922 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6923 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6924 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6925 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6926 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6927 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6928 NSS services available.
6930 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6931 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6932 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6934 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6935 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6936 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6938 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6939 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6940 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6941 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6943 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6944 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6945 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6947 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6948 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6949 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6951 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6952 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6954 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6955 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6956 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6957 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6959 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6960 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6961 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6963 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6964 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6965 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6966 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6967 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6968 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6969 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6970 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6972 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6973 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6974 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6975 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6976 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6977 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6978 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6980 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6981 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6982 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6983 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6984 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6985 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6987 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6988 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6990 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6991 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6992 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6994 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6996 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6997 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6998 their use is discouraged.
7000 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7001 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7003 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7004 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7006 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7007 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7009 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7012 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7013 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7014 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7015 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7016 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7018 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7019 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7020 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7021 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7023 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7024 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7026 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7027 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7028 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7029 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7032 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7033 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7035 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7036 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7038 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7039 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7040 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7041 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7043 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7045 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7046 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7047 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7049 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7050 for arithmetic and string handling.
7052 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7053 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7054 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7055 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7057 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7058 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7059 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7060 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7061 programs already written to use it.)
7063 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7066 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7069 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7070 a given effective group ID.
7072 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7073 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7074 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7075 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7077 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7078 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7079 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7080 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7081 doing the same thing.
7083 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7084 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7086 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7087 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7089 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7091 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7092 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7093 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7094 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7095 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7097 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7098 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7100 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7101 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7102 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7105 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7107 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7108 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7111 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7112 and writing the utmp file.
7114 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7117 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7118 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7119 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7121 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7122 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7124 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7125 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7128 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7129 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7130 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7131 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7133 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7134 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7135 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7137 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7138 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7139 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7142 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7145 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7148 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7150 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7151 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7152 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7156 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7158 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7159 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7161 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7162 want to put themselves in the background.
7164 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7165 run without an operating system.
7167 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7168 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7170 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7171 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7173 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7175 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7176 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7179 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7182 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7183 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7187 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7188 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7189 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7191 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7192 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7194 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7195 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7197 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7199 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7201 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7204 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7205 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7206 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7208 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7210 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7211 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7212 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7214 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7215 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7216 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7217 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7218 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7221 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7222 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7223 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7224 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7225 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7228 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7229 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7233 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7234 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7236 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7237 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7238 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7240 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7241 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7242 address of the last character written.
7244 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7245 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7247 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7248 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7250 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7251 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7252 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7253 you dereference this pointer.
7255 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7256 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7258 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7259 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7260 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7261 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7263 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7264 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7265 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7266 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7270 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7271 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7272 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7273 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7274 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7276 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7278 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7280 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7281 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7283 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7284 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7286 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7287 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7289 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7290 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7291 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7292 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7293 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7295 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7296 to the error code in `errno'.
7298 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7299 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7300 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7303 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7304 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7305 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7307 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7308 uniquely-named temporary file.
7312 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7313 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7314 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7316 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7319 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7320 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7322 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7326 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7327 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7328 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7329 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7331 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7332 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7333 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7335 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7336 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7338 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7339 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7340 made itself into a shared library.
7342 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7343 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7345 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7346 with limited length.
7348 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7350 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7352 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7354 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7355 function for traversing a directory tree.
7357 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7358 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7359 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7360 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7362 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7363 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7365 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7367 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7368 things to your strings.
7370 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7372 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7373 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7374 supporting those systems.
7376 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7377 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7378 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7379 configuration files.
7381 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7382 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7384 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7385 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7388 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7389 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7390 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7391 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7392 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7393 required storage is not available.
7395 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7396 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7398 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7399 latest files released from Berkeley.
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