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12 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
13 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
14 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
15 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
17 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
18 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
19 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
20 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
21 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
23 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
24 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
25 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
26 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
27 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
28 posix_spawn interface.
30 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
31 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
32 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
34 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
35 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
36 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
37 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
38 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
39 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
41 * A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
42 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
43 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
46 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
48 * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
49 ".tmp", to avoid examining temporary files created by the RPM and dpkg
52 * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
53 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
54 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
55 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
56 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
57 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
58 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
60 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
61 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
62 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
63 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
65 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
66 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
67 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
68 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
71 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
73 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
76 Security related changes:
78 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
79 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
81 [The release manager will add the list generated by
82 scripts/process-fixed-cves.sh just before the release.]
84 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
86 [The release manager will add the list generated by
87 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
93 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
94 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
95 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
96 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
97 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
98 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
99 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
100 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
101 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
102 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
103 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
105 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
108 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
109 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
110 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
111 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
112 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
113 specified in draft ISO C2X.
115 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
116 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
118 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
119 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
123 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
124 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
125 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
126 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
127 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
129 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
130 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
132 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
133 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
134 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
135 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
136 original behavior unchanged.
138 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
140 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
141 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
142 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
143 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
145 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
146 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
147 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
148 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
149 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
150 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
152 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
153 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
154 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
156 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
157 feature is now always enabled.
159 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
161 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
164 Security related changes:
166 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
167 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
168 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
169 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
170 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
171 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
173 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
175 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
176 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
178 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
179 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
180 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
181 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
183 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
184 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
186 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
187 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
188 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
189 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
190 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
191 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
193 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
194 symlink for libraries without soname
195 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
197 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
198 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
199 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
200 profiling data correctly
201 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
202 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
203 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
204 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
206 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
207 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
208 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
210 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
211 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
213 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
214 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
215 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
221 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
222 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
223 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
224 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
226 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
228 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
229 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
230 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
231 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
233 Security related changes:
235 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
236 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
237 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
238 portion of the contents of the heap.
240 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
242 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
243 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
244 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
245 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
246 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
247 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
248 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
250 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
251 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
253 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
254 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
255 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
256 gethostbyname and other functions
257 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
258 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
259 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
261 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
262 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
264 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
265 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
267 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
269 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
270 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
271 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
272 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
273 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
274 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
275 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
277 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
278 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
280 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
282 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
284 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
285 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
286 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
287 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
288 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
290 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
291 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
292 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
293 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
295 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
297 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
298 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
299 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
301 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
303 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
305 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
306 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
307 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
308 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
309 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
310 aux.S: No such file or directory)
311 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
312 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
313 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
314 coincides with offset change
315 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
316 length in fortify mode
322 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
323 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
324 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
325 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
326 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
327 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
329 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
330 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
331 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
333 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
334 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
337 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
338 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
339 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
340 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
342 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
343 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
344 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
345 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
346 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
347 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
348 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
349 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
350 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
351 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
352 validation by applications.
354 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
355 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
356 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
357 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
360 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
361 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
362 unpredictable output.
364 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
365 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
366 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
367 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
368 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
369 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
370 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
371 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
373 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
374 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
375 quality randomness from the kernel.
377 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
378 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
381 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
383 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
385 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
387 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
388 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
389 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
391 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
392 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
393 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
394 when libc.so is issued directly.
396 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
398 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
400 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
401 return different result with versioned "foo"
402 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
404 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
405 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
406 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
408 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
409 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
410 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
412 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
414 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
416 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
417 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
418 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
419 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
420 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
421 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
422 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
424 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
426 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
427 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
428 (breaks test isolation)
429 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
430 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
431 __convert_scm_timestamps
432 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
433 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
434 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
436 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
437 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
438 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
439 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
440 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
441 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
442 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
444 [28936] build: nm: No such file
445 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
446 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
448 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
450 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
451 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
452 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
454 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
456 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
457 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
458 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
459 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
460 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
461 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
462 is promoted to global scope
463 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
464 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
465 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
467 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
469 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
471 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
472 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
473 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
474 before '__fortified_attr_access'
475 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
476 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
477 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
478 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
479 value for filling after \0
480 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
481 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
482 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
484 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
485 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
486 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
487 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
488 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
489 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
490 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
492 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
493 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
494 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
495 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
496 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
497 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
498 missing on microblaze with largefile
504 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
505 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
506 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
508 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
509 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
511 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
512 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
513 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
514 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
515 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
516 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
517 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
518 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
519 glibc, and must be installed.
521 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
522 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
523 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
525 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
526 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
528 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
531 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
532 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
533 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
534 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
535 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
536 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
538 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
539 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
540 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
543 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
544 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
546 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
549 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
551 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
552 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
553 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
555 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
556 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
557 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
558 object dependency cases.
560 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
561 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
562 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
563 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
565 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
566 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
567 return value is only used for its boolean status.
569 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
570 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
571 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
572 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
573 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
574 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
575 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
576 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
577 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
578 Restartable Sequences.
580 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
581 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
583 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
584 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
585 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
586 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
587 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
588 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
589 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
592 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
593 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
594 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
595 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
596 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
599 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
600 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
602 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
603 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
606 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
607 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
612 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
613 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
615 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
616 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
617 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
618 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
619 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
621 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
622 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
624 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
625 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
626 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
628 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
629 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
630 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
631 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
634 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
635 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
637 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
639 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
640 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
641 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
643 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
644 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
646 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
647 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
649 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
651 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
653 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
654 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
655 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
657 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
658 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
659 catching coredumps and backtraces.
661 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
662 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
663 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
665 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
666 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
667 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
669 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
670 support prelink PIE binaries.
672 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
674 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
675 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
676 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
677 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
678 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
680 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
681 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
682 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
683 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
685 Security related changes:
687 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
688 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
689 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
691 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
692 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
694 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
695 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
696 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
698 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
699 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
700 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
701 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
702 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
704 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
706 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
707 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
708 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
709 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
711 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
712 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
714 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
716 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
717 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
718 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
719 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
720 ID whose lifetime has not ended
721 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
723 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
725 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
726 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
727 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
728 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
729 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
730 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
731 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
732 --enable-initfini-array
733 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
734 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
735 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
736 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
737 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
738 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
740 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
741 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
742 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
744 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
745 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
746 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
748 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
749 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
751 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
752 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
753 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
755 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
756 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
757 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
758 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
759 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
760 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
761 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
763 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
765 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
766 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
768 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
769 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
770 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
771 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
772 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
773 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
774 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
776 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
778 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
779 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
780 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
781 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
783 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
784 systems with TIMESIZE=64
785 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
786 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
787 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
788 spurious NUL character on state reset
789 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
791 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
792 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
794 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
795 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
797 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
798 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
799 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
800 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
801 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
802 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
804 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
806 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
807 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
808 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
809 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
811 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
812 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
813 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
814 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
815 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
816 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
817 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
818 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
819 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
820 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
821 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
822 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
823 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
824 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
826 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
828 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
829 results (CVE-2021-3998)
830 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
832 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
833 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
835 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
837 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
838 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
839 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
846 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
847 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
848 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
849 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
850 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
851 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
852 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
853 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
854 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
855 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
856 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
857 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
858 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
859 potentially exposing application bugs.
861 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
862 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
863 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
864 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
866 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
867 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
868 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
869 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
870 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
873 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
874 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
875 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
877 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
878 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
879 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
880 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
882 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
884 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
885 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
886 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
887 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
888 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
890 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
891 --disable-scv configure option.
893 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
894 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
895 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
896 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
897 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
898 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
901 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
902 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
903 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
904 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
905 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
906 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
909 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
910 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
912 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
913 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
914 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
915 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
916 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
917 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
918 is currently a GNU extension.
920 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
921 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
923 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
924 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
925 although it is also present in other systems.
927 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
928 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
929 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
930 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
932 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
933 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
934 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
936 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
938 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
939 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
942 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
943 programs should use the equivalent standard function
944 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
946 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
947 programs should use the equivalent standard function
948 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
950 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
951 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
953 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
955 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
956 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
957 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
958 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
959 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
960 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
961 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
962 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
963 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
964 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
965 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
967 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
968 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
969 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
970 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
971 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
972 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
973 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
974 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
976 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
977 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
978 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
979 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
980 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
981 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
982 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
984 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
985 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
986 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
987 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
988 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
989 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
990 upgrade or downgrade process.
992 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
993 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
994 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
996 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
997 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
998 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
999 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1001 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1002 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1003 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1004 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1005 this functionality back.
1007 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1008 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1009 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1010 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1012 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1013 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1014 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1015 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1016 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1017 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1018 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1019 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1020 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1022 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1024 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1025 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1026 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1027 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1029 Security related changes:
1031 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1032 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1033 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1034 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1036 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1037 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1038 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1040 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1041 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1042 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1044 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1046 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1047 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1048 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1049 given integer (closefrom)
1050 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1051 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1052 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1053 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1054 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1055 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1056 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1058 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1059 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1060 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1061 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1062 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1063 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1064 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1066 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1067 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1068 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1069 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1070 pthread_create and dlopen
1071 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1072 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1073 when non-root user changes priority
1074 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1076 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1077 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1078 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1080 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1081 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1083 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1084 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1085 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1086 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1088 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1089 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1090 the right free implementation
1091 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1092 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1093 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1094 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1095 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1097 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1098 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1099 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1100 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1101 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1102 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1103 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1105 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1106 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1108 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1109 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1110 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1111 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1112 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1113 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1115 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1116 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1117 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1118 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1119 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1120 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1121 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1122 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1124 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1125 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1127 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1128 information for the current directory
1129 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1130 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1131 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1132 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1133 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1135 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1136 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1137 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1138 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1140 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1141 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1142 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1143 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1144 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1145 tries resolving them lazily
1146 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1148 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1149 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1151 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1152 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1153 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1155 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1157 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1158 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1159 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1161 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1162 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1163 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1164 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1165 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1166 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1167 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1168 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1169 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1170 with n >= 0x80000000
1171 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1172 thread never allocated anything
1173 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1174 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1175 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1176 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1177 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1179 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1180 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1181 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1183 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1191 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1192 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1193 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1195 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1196 to change argv[0] string.
1198 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1199 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1200 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1201 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1202 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1203 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1204 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1205 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1206 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1208 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1209 information and library search path diagnostics.
1211 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1212 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1213 larger than fit in an integer.
1215 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1217 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1218 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1224 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1227 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1228 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1229 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1230 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1233 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1235 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1238 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1239 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1240 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1242 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1243 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1244 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1247 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1248 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1249 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1251 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1252 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1253 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1254 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1255 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1256 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1258 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1259 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1260 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1261 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1262 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1263 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1266 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1268 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1269 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1270 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1271 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1272 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1273 perform any adjustments.
1275 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1276 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1277 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1278 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1280 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1282 Security related changes:
1284 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1285 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1286 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1287 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1288 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1290 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1291 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1292 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1294 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1295 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1297 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1298 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1300 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1302 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1303 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1304 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1305 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1307 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1308 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1309 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1310 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1311 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1313 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1315 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1317 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1318 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1319 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1320 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1321 changing gnuc version
1322 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1324 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1326 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1327 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1328 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1329 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1330 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1331 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1332 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1333 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1334 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1335 too much stack space
1336 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1337 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1338 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1340 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1342 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1343 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1345 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1346 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1347 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1348 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1349 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1351 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1352 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1353 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1355 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1356 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1357 at the end of a memory mapping
1358 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1359 by the caller to the kernel
1360 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1361 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1362 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1363 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1365 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1366 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1367 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1368 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1369 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1370 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1371 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1373 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1374 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1375 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1376 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1378 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1380 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1382 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1383 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1384 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1385 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1387 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1389 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1390 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1391 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1393 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1395 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1397 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1399 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1400 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1401 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1402 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1404 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1406 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1408 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1409 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1410 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1412 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1413 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1414 [27177] dynamic-link:
1415 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1417 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1418 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1419 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1420 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1427 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1428 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1429 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1431 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1433 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1434 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1435 Three ABIs are supported:
1441 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1442 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1444 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1445 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1447 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1448 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1449 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1452 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1453 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1454 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1456 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1457 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1458 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1460 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1461 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1462 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1463 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1466 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1467 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1468 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1469 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1470 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1471 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1473 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1474 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1476 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1477 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1478 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1479 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1480 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1481 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1483 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1484 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1486 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1487 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1488 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1489 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1490 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1491 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1492 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1493 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1494 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1495 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1496 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1499 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1501 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1502 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1503 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1504 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1505 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1506 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1507 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1509 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1510 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1511 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1512 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1513 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1514 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1515 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1516 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1517 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1519 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1520 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1521 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1522 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1523 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1525 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1526 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1527 was not declared in any header file.
1529 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1530 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1531 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1532 sigaction functions instead.
1534 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1535 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1537 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1538 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1539 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1540 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1543 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1544 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1545 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1546 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1547 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1549 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1550 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1551 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1552 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1554 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1555 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1556 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1557 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1558 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1559 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1560 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1562 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1563 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1564 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1565 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1566 flavor of secure RPC.)
1568 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1569 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1570 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1571 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1572 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1573 object, to enable the hooks.
1575 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1576 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1577 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1580 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1582 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1583 long double redirects.
1585 Security related changes:
1587 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1588 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1589 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1591 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1592 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1593 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1595 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1596 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1598 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1599 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1600 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1603 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1605 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1606 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1607 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1608 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1609 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1610 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1611 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1612 filtee has constructor
1613 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1614 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1615 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1616 character entities for infinity & pi
1617 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1618 segfaults in applications
1619 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1620 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1621 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1622 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1623 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1624 function with -mlong-double-64
1625 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1627 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1629 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1630 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1631 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1632 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1633 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1634 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1636 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1637 dynamically loaded dsos
1638 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1639 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1641 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1642 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1643 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1644 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1645 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1646 stale configuration forever
1647 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1649 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1651 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1652 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1654 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1655 on 32 bit and old kernel
1656 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1657 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1659 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1660 amount of sigset_t bytes
1661 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1663 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1664 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1665 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1666 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1667 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1668 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1669 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1670 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1671 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1672 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1674 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1675 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1676 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1677 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1678 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1679 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1680 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1682 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1683 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1685 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1686 exiting detached thread
1687 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1689 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1691 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1692 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1693 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1694 dependencies in audit mode
1695 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1696 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1697 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1698 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1699 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1701 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1702 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1704 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1705 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1707 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1708 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1709 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1710 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1711 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1712 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1713 corruption in memset
1720 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1721 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1722 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1723 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1724 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1725 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1727 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1728 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1729 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1730 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1732 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1733 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1734 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1736 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1738 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1739 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1740 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1741 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1742 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1743 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1744 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1745 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1747 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1749 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1750 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1751 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1752 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1753 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1754 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1756 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1757 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1758 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1760 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1761 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1762 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1763 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1765 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1766 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1767 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1768 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1769 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1770 made this no longer practical.
1772 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1773 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1774 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1775 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1778 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1779 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1780 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1782 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1783 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1784 using clock_gettime instead.
1786 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1787 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1788 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1789 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1790 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1792 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1793 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1794 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1795 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1797 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1798 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1799 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1800 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1801 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1802 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1804 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1805 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1806 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1807 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1810 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1811 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1812 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1814 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1817 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1818 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1819 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1820 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1821 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1823 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1824 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1825 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1826 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1827 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1828 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1829 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1830 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1832 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1833 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1835 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1836 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1837 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1838 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1839 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1840 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1842 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1844 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1845 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1846 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1848 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1849 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1850 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1852 Security related changes:
1854 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1855 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1857 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1858 environment variable during program execution after a security
1859 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1860 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1861 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1863 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1865 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1866 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1867 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1868 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1869 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1870 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1871 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1872 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1874 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1875 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1876 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1877 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1878 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1879 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1880 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1881 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1882 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1883 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1885 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1887 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1888 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1889 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1890 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1891 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1892 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1893 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1895 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1897 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1898 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1899 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1900 (stringop-overflow error)
1901 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1902 functions other can lead to crashes
1903 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1904 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1906 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1907 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1908 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1909 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1910 still can fail with an error
1911 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1912 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1913 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1914 initialized correctly
1915 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1917 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1918 value to an unsigned
1919 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1920 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1921 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1923 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1925 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1927 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1929 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1930 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1931 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1933 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1934 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1936 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1937 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1938 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1939 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1940 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1941 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1948 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1949 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1950 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1952 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1953 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1955 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1956 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1957 to the callback function.
1959 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1961 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1962 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1965 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1967 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1968 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1969 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1970 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1971 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1973 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1974 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1975 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1976 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1977 link time reference, is gone.
1979 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1980 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1981 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1982 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1983 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1984 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1985 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1986 the clock choice at initialization time).
1988 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1989 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1990 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1992 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1994 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1995 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1996 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1997 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1998 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1999 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2000 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2001 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2002 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2004 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2005 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2006 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2007 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2010 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2011 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2013 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2014 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2016 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2017 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2019 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2022 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2023 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2024 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2026 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2027 header have been removed.
2029 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2030 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2031 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2032 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2034 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2036 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2038 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2039 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2041 Security related changes:
2043 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2044 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2045 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2046 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2047 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2048 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2049 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2051 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2052 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2053 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2055 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2057 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2058 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2059 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2060 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2061 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2062 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2063 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2064 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2065 invalid input drops valid char
2066 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2067 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2068 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2069 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2070 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2072 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2073 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2074 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2075 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2077 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2078 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2079 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2080 for long double = double
2081 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2082 long double = double
2083 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2084 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2085 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2087 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2088 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2090 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2091 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2092 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2093 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2094 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2095 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2096 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2097 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2098 not the default "nor"
2099 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2100 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2101 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2102 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2104 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2105 unnecessary librt dependencies
2106 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2107 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2108 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2109 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2111 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2112 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2114 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2115 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2116 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2117 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2118 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2119 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2120 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2121 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2122 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2123 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2124 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2125 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2127 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2129 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2130 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2132 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2133 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2134 kernels and break testing
2135 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2136 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2137 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2138 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2139 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2140 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2141 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2143 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2144 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2146 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2148 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2149 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2150 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2151 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2152 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2153 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2154 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2155 always implemented in the same library
2156 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2157 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2158 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2166 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2167 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2169 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2170 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2171 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2172 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2173 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2174 configured location.
2176 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2178 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2179 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2181 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2182 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2183 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2184 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2185 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2186 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2187 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2188 process actually does not use HTM).
2190 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2191 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2192 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2193 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2194 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2197 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2198 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2199 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2200 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2201 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2203 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2204 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2206 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2207 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2209 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2210 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2211 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2212 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2213 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2214 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2215 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2217 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2218 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2219 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2221 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2223 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2224 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2226 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2227 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2228 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2229 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2231 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2232 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2233 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2234 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2237 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2238 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2239 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2240 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2241 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2242 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2244 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2245 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2246 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2247 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2248 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2250 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2251 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2252 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2254 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2256 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2258 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2259 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2261 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2262 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2264 Security related changes:
2266 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2267 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2268 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2270 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2271 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2272 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2273 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2274 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2276 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2277 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2278 or command injection issues in applications.
2280 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2282 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2283 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2284 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2286 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2287 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2288 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2290 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2291 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2292 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2293 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2294 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2295 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2296 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2297 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2298 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2299 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2300 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2301 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2302 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2303 pointer argument is non-NULL
2304 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2305 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2306 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2307 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2308 multithreads call popen
2309 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2310 and pthread_create fails.
2311 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2312 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2314 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2315 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2316 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2318 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2320 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2322 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2323 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2325 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2326 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2327 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2328 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2329 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2330 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2331 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2333 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2334 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2335 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2337 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2338 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2339 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2340 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2342 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2344 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2345 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2346 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2347 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2349 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2351 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2352 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2353 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2355 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2356 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2357 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2358 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2359 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2360 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2362 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2363 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2364 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2365 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2366 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2367 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2368 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2369 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2370 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2371 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2372 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2373 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2374 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2375 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2377 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2378 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2379 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2380 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2381 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2383 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2384 nearest rounding mode
2385 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2386 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2387 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2388 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2389 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2390 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2391 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2392 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2393 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2395 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2396 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2398 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2399 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2400 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2401 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2403 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2405 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2407 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2409 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2410 answers will be rejected)
2411 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2418 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2419 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2420 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2421 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2422 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2423 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2424 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2425 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2426 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2427 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2428 archive or binary locales.
2430 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2431 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2432 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2433 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2434 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2435 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2436 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2437 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2438 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2439 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2440 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2443 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2444 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2445 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2446 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2447 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2448 field) to indicate such support is required.
2450 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2451 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2452 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2454 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2455 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2457 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2458 fMxaddfNx functions.
2460 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2461 fMxsubfNx functions.
2463 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2464 fMxmulfNx functions.
2466 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2467 fMxdivfNx functions.
2469 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2470 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2471 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2472 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2475 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2476 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2478 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2481 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2482 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2483 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2484 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2485 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2486 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2487 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2488 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2490 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2491 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2492 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2493 the fstatat64 function.
2495 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2496 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2497 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2498 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2499 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2500 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2501 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2502 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2503 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2505 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2506 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2507 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2508 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2509 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2510 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2511 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2512 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2513 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2514 results in a load failure now.
2516 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2517 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2520 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2521 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2523 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2524 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2526 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2528 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2529 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2531 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2533 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2535 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2537 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2538 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2539 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2541 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2542 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2543 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2544 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2545 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2546 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2548 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2549 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2550 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2551 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2552 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2553 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2556 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2557 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2558 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2559 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2560 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2561 further explanation.
2563 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2564 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2565 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2567 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2569 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2570 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2571 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2573 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2574 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2575 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2576 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2578 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2579 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2580 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2581 for this function instead.
2583 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2584 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2585 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2587 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2588 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2589 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2590 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2592 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2593 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2594 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2595 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2596 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2598 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2599 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2600 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2601 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2602 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2603 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2606 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2607 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2608 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2611 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2612 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2613 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2615 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2616 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2617 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2618 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2619 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2620 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2622 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2623 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2624 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2625 behavior in a future release.
2627 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2629 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2631 Security related changes:
2633 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2634 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2635 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2636 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2638 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2639 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2641 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2642 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2645 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2646 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2647 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2649 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2651 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2652 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2653 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2654 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2655 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2656 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2657 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2658 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2659 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2661 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2662 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2663 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2664 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2665 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2667 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2669 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2670 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2671 scope with -O1 and higher
2672 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2673 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2674 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2675 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2676 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2677 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2678 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2679 horrible machine code)
2680 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2682 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2683 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2685 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2686 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2688 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2689 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2690 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2691 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2692 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2694 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2695 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2696 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2697 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2698 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2700 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2701 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2702 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2704 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2705 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2706 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2707 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2708 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2709 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2710 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2711 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2712 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2713 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2714 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2715 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2716 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2718 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2720 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2721 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2722 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2723 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2724 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2725 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2726 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2727 for Spanish with CLDR
2728 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2729 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2730 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2731 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2732 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2733 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2735 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2737 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2738 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2739 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2740 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2742 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2743 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2744 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2745 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2746 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2747 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2748 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2749 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2750 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2751 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2752 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2753 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2754 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2755 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2756 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2757 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2758 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2760 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2761 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2763 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2764 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2765 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2766 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2767 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2768 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2770 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2772 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2773 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2774 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2775 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2776 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2777 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2778 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2779 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2780 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2781 and libc build with -Os)
2782 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2783 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2784 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2785 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2786 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2787 that changes /etc/passwd
2788 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2790 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2791 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2792 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2794 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2795 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2796 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2797 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2798 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2800 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2801 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2803 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2804 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2805 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2806 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2808 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2809 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2810 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2811 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2813 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2815 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2817 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2819 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2821 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2822 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2823 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2824 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2825 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2826 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2827 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2828 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2830 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2837 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2838 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2839 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2840 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2841 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2842 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2843 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2844 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2845 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2847 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2848 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2851 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2853 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2855 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2856 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2857 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2858 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2859 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2860 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2861 from a security and performance perspective.
2863 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2864 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2865 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2866 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2868 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2869 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2870 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2871 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2872 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2874 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2875 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2876 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2877 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2880 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2881 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2882 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2884 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2886 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2887 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2890 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2892 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2894 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2895 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2896 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2898 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2899 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2900 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2901 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2902 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2903 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2904 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2906 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2907 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2908 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2909 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2910 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2911 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2912 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2914 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2915 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2916 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2917 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2920 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2921 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2922 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2923 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2925 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2926 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2927 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2929 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2930 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2931 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2933 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2934 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2935 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2941 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2943 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2944 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2945 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2946 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2947 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2948 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2949 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2950 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2951 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2954 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2955 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2956 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2958 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2959 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2960 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2961 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2962 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2963 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2964 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2965 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2966 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2967 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2968 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2969 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2970 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2971 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2972 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2973 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2974 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2975 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2976 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2977 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2978 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2979 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2980 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2981 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2982 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2983 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2985 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2986 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2988 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2989 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2990 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2991 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2992 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2993 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2994 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2996 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2997 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2998 exp10l for these functions instead.
3000 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3001 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3002 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3004 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3005 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3008 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3009 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3010 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3011 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3013 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3014 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3016 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3017 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3019 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3022 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3024 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3025 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3026 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3029 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3030 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3031 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3032 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3033 use, but predates the bits convention.
3035 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3037 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3040 Security related changes:
3042 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3043 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3044 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3045 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3048 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3049 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3050 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3051 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3053 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3054 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3055 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3058 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3059 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3060 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3062 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3063 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3064 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3065 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3067 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3068 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3069 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3072 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3073 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3074 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3075 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3076 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3078 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3079 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3082 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3083 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3084 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3086 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3087 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3088 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3090 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3091 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3092 small, instead of NULL.
3094 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3096 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3097 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3098 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3100 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3101 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3102 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3104 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3105 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3106 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3107 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3108 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3109 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3110 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3111 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3112 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3114 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3115 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3116 width Latin characters
3117 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3118 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3119 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3121 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3122 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3124 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3125 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3126 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3127 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3128 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3130 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3131 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3132 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3133 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3134 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3135 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3136 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3137 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3138 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3139 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3141 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3142 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3143 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3144 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3145 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3146 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3147 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3148 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3150 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3151 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3153 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3154 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3156 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3157 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3158 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3159 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3160 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3161 __regcall calling convention
3162 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3163 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3164 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3165 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3166 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3167 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3168 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3169 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3170 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3171 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3172 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3173 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3174 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3176 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3178 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3180 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3181 consistency check failures
3182 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3183 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3184 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3185 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3187 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3189 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3190 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3191 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3192 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3193 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3194 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3195 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3196 on memory allocation failure
3197 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3198 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3200 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3202 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3203 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3204 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3205 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3206 instead of EAI_NODATA
3207 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3208 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3209 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3210 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3212 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3213 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3214 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3215 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3216 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3217 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3218 allocation in syscall loops)
3219 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3220 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3221 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3222 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3223 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3224 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3225 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3226 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3227 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3229 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3230 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3231 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3233 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3234 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3236 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3238 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3239 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3240 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3241 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3242 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3243 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3244 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3245 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3246 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3247 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3248 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3249 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3250 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3251 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3252 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3253 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3254 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3255 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3257 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3259 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3260 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3262 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3263 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3264 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3265 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3267 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3268 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3269 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3270 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3271 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3272 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3273 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3274 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3275 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3276 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3277 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3279 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3280 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3281 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3282 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3283 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3284 the svid compat wrapper
3285 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3286 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3287 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3288 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3289 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3290 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3292 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3293 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3295 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3296 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3297 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3298 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3299 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3300 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3302 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3303 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3304 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3305 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3307 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3308 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3310 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3311 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3312 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3313 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3314 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3315 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3316 inside the ASCII printable range
3317 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3319 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3320 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3321 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3323 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3324 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3326 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3327 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3328 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3330 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3331 networking interface
3332 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3333 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3334 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3335 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3336 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3337 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3338 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3339 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3340 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3342 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3343 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3344 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3345 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3346 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3347 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3348 same as for Croatian
3349 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3350 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3351 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3353 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3355 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3356 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3357 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3358 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3359 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3361 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3362 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3363 modified in case of success
3364 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3365 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3367 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3369 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3370 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3371 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3372 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3373 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3374 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3375 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3376 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3378 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3379 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3380 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3381 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3382 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3383 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3384 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3385 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3386 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3388 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3389 elision and tunables
3390 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3392 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3393 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3394 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3396 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3397 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3399 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3400 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3401 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3402 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3403 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3404 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3405 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3406 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3407 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3414 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3415 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3416 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3417 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3418 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3419 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3420 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3422 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3423 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3424 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3425 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3426 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3427 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3428 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3430 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3431 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3434 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3436 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3437 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3438 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3440 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3441 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3442 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3443 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3444 object are still limited to six search domains.
3446 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3447 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3448 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3450 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3451 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3453 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3454 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3455 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3456 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3458 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3459 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3460 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3461 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3463 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3464 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3465 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3466 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3468 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3469 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3470 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3472 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3473 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3474 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3475 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3477 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3478 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3479 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3480 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3481 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3483 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3484 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3485 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3486 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3487 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3488 interfaces should be used instead.
3490 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3492 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3493 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3494 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3495 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3496 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3497 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3498 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3499 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3501 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3504 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3505 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3506 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3507 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3509 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3510 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3513 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3514 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3515 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3516 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3517 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3519 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3520 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3521 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3522 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3524 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3525 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3526 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3527 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3529 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3530 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3532 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3533 exported by accident.
3535 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3536 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3537 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3539 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3540 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3541 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3542 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3544 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3546 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3548 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3551 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3552 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3554 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3555 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3557 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3558 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3559 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3560 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3561 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3562 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3563 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3564 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3566 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3567 synced with the kernel:
3569 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3570 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3572 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3573 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3574 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3576 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3577 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3579 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3581 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3582 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3585 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3587 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3588 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3590 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3591 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3592 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3593 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3594 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3596 Security related changes:
3598 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3599 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3601 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3602 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3604 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3605 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3608 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3609 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3611 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3613 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3614 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3615 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3617 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3619 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3620 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3621 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3623 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3624 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3625 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3626 x86 and other generic code
3627 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3628 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3630 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3631 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3632 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3633 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3634 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3635 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3636 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3638 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3639 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3640 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3641 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3643 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3644 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3646 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3648 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3649 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3650 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3652 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3653 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3654 failures consistently
3655 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3656 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3657 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3658 frame-pointer on i386
3659 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3661 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3662 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3663 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3664 generic c code is used
3665 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3666 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3668 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3670 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3671 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3673 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3674 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3675 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3676 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3677 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3678 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3679 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3680 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3681 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3682 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3684 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3686 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3687 new posix_spawn implementation
3688 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3689 leads to lower CPU frequency
3690 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3691 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3692 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3693 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3694 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3695 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3696 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3697 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3698 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3699 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3700 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3701 not support gethostbyname4_r
3702 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3704 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3706 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3707 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3708 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3709 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3710 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3711 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3712 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3714 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3715 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3716 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3717 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3718 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3719 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3720 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3721 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3722 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3723 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3724 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3725 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3727 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3728 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3729 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3730 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3731 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3732 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3733 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3734 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3736 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3737 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3738 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3739 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3740 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3741 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3742 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3743 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3744 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3745 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3746 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3747 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3748 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3749 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3750 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3751 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3752 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3753 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3754 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3755 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3756 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3758 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3759 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3760 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3761 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3762 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3764 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3765 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3767 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3768 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3770 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3771 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3773 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3774 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3775 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3776 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3778 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3779 leading to relocation crash
3780 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3781 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3782 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3783 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3784 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3785 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3786 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3787 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3788 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3790 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3792 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3793 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3794 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3795 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3796 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3797 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3798 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3799 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3801 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3803 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3805 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3806 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3807 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3808 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3809 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3810 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3811 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3812 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3813 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3814 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3815 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3816 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3817 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3818 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3819 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3820 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3821 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3822 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3823 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3824 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3825 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3826 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3827 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3828 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3829 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3830 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3831 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3833 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3834 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3835 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3836 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3837 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3842 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3843 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3844 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3847 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3848 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3849 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3852 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3853 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3854 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3857 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3858 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3859 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3860 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3861 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3862 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3863 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3866 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3867 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3870 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3871 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3872 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3874 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3875 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3876 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3877 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3880 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3881 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3882 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3884 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3885 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3886 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3887 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3888 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3889 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3890 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3891 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3892 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3893 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3894 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3897 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3899 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3901 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3902 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3903 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3905 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3906 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3908 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3911 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3913 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3915 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3916 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3918 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3920 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3921 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3923 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3924 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3926 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3927 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3928 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3930 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3931 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3932 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3933 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3934 effects of the memory clear).
3936 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3937 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3938 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3939 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3941 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3942 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3943 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3944 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3945 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3946 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3948 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3951 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3952 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3953 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3954 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3955 as large as several megabytes.
3957 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3958 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3961 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3962 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3963 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3964 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3965 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3966 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3967 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3969 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3970 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3971 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3972 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3974 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3975 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3976 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3979 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3980 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3981 They were already unimplemented.
3983 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3984 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3985 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3986 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3988 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3989 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3990 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3991 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3992 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3994 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3995 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3996 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3997 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3998 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4000 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4001 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4002 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4003 did not reflect that.
4005 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4006 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4007 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4008 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4009 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4010 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4011 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4014 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4015 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4016 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4017 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4019 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4020 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4021 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4022 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4024 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4025 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4028 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4029 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4032 Security related changes:
4034 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4035 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4036 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4037 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4038 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4040 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4041 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4042 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4043 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4046 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4048 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4049 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4051 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4052 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4053 before it started waiting
4054 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4055 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4056 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4057 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4059 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4060 library linked with pthread
4061 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4062 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4063 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4064 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4065 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4066 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4067 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4069 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4071 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4072 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4073 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4074 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4075 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4076 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4077 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4078 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4079 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4081 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4082 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4083 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4084 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4085 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4086 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4087 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4088 causes a segmentation fault
4089 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4091 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4092 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4094 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4096 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4097 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4098 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4100 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4101 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4103 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4104 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4105 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4106 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4107 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4108 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4109 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4110 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4112 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4113 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4114 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4116 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4118 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4120 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4121 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4122 cause transition penalty
4123 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4124 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4125 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4126 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4127 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4129 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4131 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4132 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4133 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4134 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4135 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4136 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4138 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4140 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4141 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4142 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4143 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4144 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4145 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4146 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4147 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4148 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4149 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4150 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4151 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4152 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4153 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4155 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4156 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4157 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4158 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4159 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4160 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4161 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4162 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4163 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4164 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4165 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4166 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4167 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4168 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4169 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4170 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4171 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4172 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4174 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4175 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4176 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4177 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4178 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4180 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4181 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4182 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4183 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4184 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4185 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4186 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4188 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4189 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4190 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4191 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4192 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4196 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4197 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4198 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4199 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4200 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4203 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4204 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4205 been included in previous releases.
4207 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4208 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4210 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4211 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4212 instead of “union wait”.
4214 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4215 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4216 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4217 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4218 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4219 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4220 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4222 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4225 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4226 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4229 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4230 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4231 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4232 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4233 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4236 Security related changes:
4238 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4239 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4240 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4242 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4243 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4244 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4245 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4247 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4248 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4249 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4251 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4252 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4253 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4255 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4256 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4257 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4258 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4260 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4262 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4263 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4265 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4266 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4267 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4268 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4269 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4270 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4271 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4272 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4274 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4275 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4276 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4277 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4278 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4279 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4281 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4283 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4284 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4285 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4286 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4287 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4288 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4289 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4290 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4291 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4292 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4293 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4295 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4296 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4297 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4298 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4299 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4300 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4302 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4303 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4305 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4306 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4307 Romanian locale data
4308 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4310 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4311 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4313 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4314 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4315 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4316 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4318 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4320 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4321 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4322 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4323 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4324 when using RTLD_NEXT
4325 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4326 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4327 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4328 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4329 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4330 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4331 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4332 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4333 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4335 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4336 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4337 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4338 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4340 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4342 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4344 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4345 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4346 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4347 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4348 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4349 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4351 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4352 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4354 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4355 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4357 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4359 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4361 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4362 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4363 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4364 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4365 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4366 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4367 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4368 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4369 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4370 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4371 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4372 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4373 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4374 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4376 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4378 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4379 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4380 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4381 response to getaddrinfo
4382 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4383 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4384 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4385 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4386 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4387 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4389 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4390 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4391 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4393 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4394 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4395 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4396 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4398 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4399 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4400 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4402 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4403 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4404 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4405 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4406 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4407 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4408 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4409 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4411 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4412 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4413 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4415 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4416 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4417 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4418 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4419 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4420 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4421 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4422 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4423 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4424 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4425 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4426 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4427 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4429 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4430 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4431 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4432 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4434 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4435 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4437 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4438 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4439 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4440 AS not supporting AVX512
4441 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4443 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4444 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4446 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4447 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4448 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4449 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4450 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4452 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4453 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4455 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4456 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4457 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4458 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4459 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4460 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4461 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4462 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4463 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4465 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4466 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4467 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4468 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4469 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4470 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4471 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4472 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4473 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4474 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4475 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4476 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4477 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4479 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4480 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4481 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4482 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4483 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4485 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4486 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4488 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4489 "invalid" exceptions
4490 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4491 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4492 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4493 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4494 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4495 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4496 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4497 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4498 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4502 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4503 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4504 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4505 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4506 89, 16061, and 18568.
4508 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4509 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4510 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4511 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4512 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4513 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4514 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4516 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4517 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4518 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4520 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4521 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4522 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4523 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4524 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4525 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4526 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4528 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4529 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4530 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4531 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4532 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4533 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4534 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4537 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4538 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4539 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4540 independent of the GNU C Library.
4542 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4543 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4545 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4546 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4547 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4548 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4549 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4552 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4553 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4555 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4556 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4557 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4558 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4559 defining their own copy.
4561 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4562 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4563 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4565 Security related changes:
4567 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4568 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4570 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4571 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4572 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4573 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4576 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4577 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4579 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4580 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4582 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4583 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4584 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4586 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4587 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4588 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4589 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4590 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4591 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4592 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4593 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4594 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4595 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4596 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4597 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4598 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4600 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4602 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4603 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4604 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4605 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4606 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4607 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4609 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4610 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4611 overflow/underflow errors
4612 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4614 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4615 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4616 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4617 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4618 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4619 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4621 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4622 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4623 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4624 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4625 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4626 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4627 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4628 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4629 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4631 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4633 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4634 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4635 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4637 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4638 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4639 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4640 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4641 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4643 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4644 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4646 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4647 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4648 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4649 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4650 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4651 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4652 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4653 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4655 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4656 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4657 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4658 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4659 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4661 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4662 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4664 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4665 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4666 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4667 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4668 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4670 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4671 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4672 (related to lock elision)
4673 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4674 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4675 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4676 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4678 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4679 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4680 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4681 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4682 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4683 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4684 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4685 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4686 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4687 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4688 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4689 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4690 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4691 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4692 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4693 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4694 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4695 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4696 contains a vector instruction exception.
4697 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4698 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4700 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4701 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4702 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4703 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4704 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4706 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4708 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4709 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4711 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4712 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4713 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4714 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4715 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4717 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4718 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4719 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4720 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4721 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4722 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4723 statically too large
4724 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4725 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4726 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4727 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4728 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4729 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4730 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4731 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4732 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4734 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4735 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4736 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4737 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4738 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4739 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4740 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4742 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4743 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4744 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4745 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4747 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4748 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4749 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4750 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4751 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4752 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4754 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4755 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4756 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4757 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4758 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4759 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4761 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4762 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4763 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4764 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4765 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4766 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4767 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4768 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4770 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4771 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4772 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4773 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4774 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4775 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4776 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4777 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4778 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4780 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4782 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4783 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4784 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4786 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4787 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4788 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4789 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4790 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4791 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4792 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4793 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4794 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4795 pthread_setaffinity_np
4796 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4797 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4798 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4799 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4800 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4802 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4803 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4804 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4805 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4806 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4807 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4808 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4810 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4811 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4812 for C99-based standards
4813 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4814 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4816 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4817 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4818 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4820 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4821 "inexact" exceptions
4822 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4824 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4825 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4826 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4827 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4829 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4830 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4831 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4832 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4833 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4834 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4835 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4836 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4837 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4838 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4840 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4841 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4842 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4843 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4845 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4846 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4847 error on 32-bit architectures
4848 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4849 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4850 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4851 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4852 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4853 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4854 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4855 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4856 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4858 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4860 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4861 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4862 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4863 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4865 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4869 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4871 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4872 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4873 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4874 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4875 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4876 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4877 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4878 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4879 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4880 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4881 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4882 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4883 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4884 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4885 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4886 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4887 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4888 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4889 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4890 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4892 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4893 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4895 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4896 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4897 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4898 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4899 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4900 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4902 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4903 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4904 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4905 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4906 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4908 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4909 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4910 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4912 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4913 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4914 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4917 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4918 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4919 condition in some applications.
4921 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4922 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4924 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4925 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4926 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4927 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4928 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4930 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4931 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4932 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4933 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4935 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4936 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4937 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4939 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4940 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4942 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4943 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4944 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4946 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4947 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4948 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4952 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4954 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4955 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4956 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4957 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4958 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4959 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4960 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4961 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4962 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4963 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4966 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4967 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4968 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4969 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4972 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4973 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4974 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4975 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4976 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4977 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4979 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4981 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4982 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4983 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4985 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4986 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4987 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4988 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4989 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4990 effects being visible outside transactions.
4992 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4993 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4995 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4997 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4998 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4999 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5000 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5001 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5003 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5004 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5006 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5007 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5010 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5011 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5012 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5014 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5015 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5017 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5019 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5020 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5021 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5022 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5024 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5025 with newer versions of bison.
5027 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5028 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5029 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5030 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5031 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5032 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5033 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5034 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5035 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5036 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5037 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5038 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5039 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5041 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5042 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5043 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5044 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5045 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5049 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5051 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5052 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5053 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5054 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5055 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5056 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5057 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5058 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5059 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5060 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5061 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5062 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5063 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5064 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5065 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5067 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5068 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5069 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5070 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5071 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5072 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5073 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5074 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5075 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5076 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5078 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5079 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5080 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5081 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5082 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5084 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5086 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5087 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5089 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5090 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5091 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5092 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5093 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5094 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5096 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5099 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5100 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5101 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5102 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5103 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5104 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5105 test macros defined.
5107 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5109 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5110 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5111 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5112 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5113 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5114 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5117 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5118 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5119 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5120 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5123 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5124 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5125 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5127 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5128 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5129 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5130 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5132 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5133 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5134 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5135 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5136 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5137 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5138 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5141 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5142 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5143 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5144 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5145 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5146 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5147 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5148 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5149 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5151 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5152 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5153 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5154 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5155 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5156 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5158 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5159 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5160 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5161 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5165 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5167 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5168 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5169 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5170 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5171 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5172 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5173 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5174 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5175 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5176 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5177 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5178 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5179 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5180 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5181 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5182 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5183 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5184 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5186 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5187 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5189 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5190 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5191 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5192 extension which uses __block.
5194 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5195 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5196 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5197 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5198 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5200 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5201 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5202 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5203 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5206 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5207 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5208 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5209 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5210 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5212 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5213 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5214 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5216 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5217 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5218 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5221 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5222 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5224 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5225 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5227 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5229 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5232 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5234 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5236 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5237 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5238 for which the C library was built.
5240 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5241 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5242 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5243 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5244 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5245 in the following circumstances:
5247 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5249 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5250 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5252 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5253 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5255 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5256 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5258 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5260 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5261 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5263 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5265 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5267 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5269 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5270 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5271 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5272 disable some of those declarations.
5274 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5275 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5276 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5278 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5279 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5281 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5282 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5283 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5284 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5285 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5286 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5287 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5288 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5289 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5290 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5291 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5292 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5293 require recompilation.
5297 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5299 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5300 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5301 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5302 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5303 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5304 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5305 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5306 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5307 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5308 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5309 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5310 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5311 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5314 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5315 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5316 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5317 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5318 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5319 understands and accepts the risks.
5321 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5324 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5325 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5327 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5328 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5329 destructor calls to glibc.
5331 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5334 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5335 non-x86 architectures.
5337 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5339 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5341 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5344 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5346 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5349 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5350 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5352 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5354 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5355 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5357 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5358 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5360 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5361 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5362 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5364 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5365 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5366 attributes of a process.
5368 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5369 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5370 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5371 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5374 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5375 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5377 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5381 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5383 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5384 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5385 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5386 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5387 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5388 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5389 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5390 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5391 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5392 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5393 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5394 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5395 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5396 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5397 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5399 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5401 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5402 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5404 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5405 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5407 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5409 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5410 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5412 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5414 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5415 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5416 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5418 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5419 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5421 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5422 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5424 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5425 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5427 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5428 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5430 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5431 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5432 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5433 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5435 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5436 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5438 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5439 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5442 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5443 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5444 information in --help and --version output.
5446 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5447 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5448 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5450 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5451 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5452 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5453 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5454 when the mode is enabled.
5456 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5457 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5458 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5459 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5460 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5461 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5462 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5464 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5469 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5471 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5472 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5473 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5474 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5475 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5476 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5477 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5478 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5479 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5480 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5481 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5482 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5483 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5484 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5485 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5486 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5487 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5488 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5489 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5490 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5491 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5492 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5495 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5496 configuring glibc with:
5497 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5498 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5499 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5503 + define static_assert
5505 + do not declare gets
5507 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5509 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5510 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5511 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5514 + timespec_get added
5516 + uchar.h support added
5518 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5520 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5522 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5524 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5526 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5527 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5529 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5532 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5533 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5534 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5535 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5536 existing applications.
5538 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5539 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5542 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5543 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5544 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5546 * New locales: mag_IN
5548 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5549 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5550 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5551 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5552 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5554 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5556 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5559 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5561 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5562 without a previously built glibc.
5564 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5565 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5567 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5568 now supported for ARM processors.
5570 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5571 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5572 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5574 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5576 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5577 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5578 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5579 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5581 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5582 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5583 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5584 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5586 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5587 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5588 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5589 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5590 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5592 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5593 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5594 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5595 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5599 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5601 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5602 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5603 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5604 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5605 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5606 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5607 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5609 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5610 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5612 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5613 and support for initgroups lookups.
5614 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5616 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5617 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5619 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5620 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5622 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5623 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5624 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5626 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5627 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5629 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5630 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5631 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5633 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5634 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5636 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5637 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5639 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5640 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5642 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5645 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5646 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5648 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5649 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5651 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5653 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5654 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5656 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5657 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5659 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5663 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5665 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5666 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5667 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5668 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5669 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5670 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5671 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5672 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5673 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5674 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5676 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5677 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5678 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5679 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5681 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5682 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5683 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5684 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5686 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5687 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5689 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5690 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5692 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5694 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5695 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5697 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5698 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5699 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5700 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5704 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5706 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5707 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5708 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5709 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5712 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5714 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5716 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5717 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5718 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5722 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5724 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5725 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5726 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5727 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5728 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5729 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5730 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5731 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5733 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5735 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5737 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5739 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5740 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5741 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5743 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5744 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5745 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5746 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5747 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5749 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5753 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5755 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5756 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5757 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5758 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5759 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5760 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5762 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5764 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5766 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5767 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5769 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5770 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5772 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5774 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5775 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5776 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5777 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5779 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5780 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5782 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5784 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5786 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5787 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5789 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5790 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5792 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5793 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5795 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5796 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5797 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5798 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5799 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5800 necessity is every process again.
5801 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5803 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5804 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5806 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5807 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5809 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5810 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5811 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5813 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5817 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5819 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5820 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5821 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5822 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5823 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5825 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5826 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5828 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5829 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5831 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5832 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5834 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5837 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5838 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5840 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5841 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5843 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5844 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5846 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5847 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5849 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5850 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5853 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5855 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5856 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5858 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5859 and extend existing format specifiers.
5860 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5862 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5863 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5865 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5866 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5867 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5868 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5869 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5870 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5874 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5876 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5877 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5878 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5879 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5880 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5882 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5883 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5885 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5886 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5888 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5889 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5891 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5892 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5893 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5895 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5896 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5898 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5900 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5901 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5903 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5904 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5905 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5906 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5908 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5909 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5911 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5913 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5915 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5919 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5921 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5922 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5923 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5924 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5925 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5926 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5927 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5929 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5931 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5933 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5934 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5936 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5938 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5939 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5941 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5942 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5944 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5945 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5946 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5948 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5949 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5951 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5952 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5954 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5955 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5957 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
5958 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5962 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5964 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5965 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5966 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5967 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5968 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5970 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5971 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5973 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5975 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5976 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5977 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5979 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5980 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5982 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5983 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5985 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5987 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5988 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5990 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5991 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5993 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5994 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5996 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5998 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5999 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6001 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6002 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6005 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6006 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6010 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6012 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6013 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6014 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6015 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6016 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6017 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6018 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6021 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6023 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6025 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6029 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6031 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6032 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6033 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6034 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6035 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6036 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6037 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6038 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6039 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6041 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6042 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6043 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6045 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6046 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6048 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6050 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6052 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6053 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6054 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6055 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6056 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6058 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6059 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6060 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6061 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6063 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6066 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6068 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6071 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6073 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6074 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6078 * More overflow detection functions.
6080 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6081 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6083 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6084 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6085 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6086 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6087 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6088 by Masahide Washizawa.
6090 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6091 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6093 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6094 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6095 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6096 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6098 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6099 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6101 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6103 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6104 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6105 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6107 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6108 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6110 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6111 for compatibility with some other systems.
6113 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6117 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6119 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6120 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6121 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6122 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6123 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6124 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6126 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6128 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6130 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6134 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6136 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6137 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6138 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6139 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6141 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6145 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6146 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6148 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6149 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6150 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6152 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6153 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6155 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6157 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6159 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6160 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6163 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6164 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6165 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6167 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6168 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6170 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6171 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6172 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6173 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6175 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6176 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6177 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6178 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6180 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6181 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6182 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6183 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6184 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6188 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6189 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6191 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6192 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6194 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6195 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6197 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6198 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6200 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6203 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6206 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6211 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6212 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6213 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6214 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6215 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6216 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6217 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6218 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6219 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6221 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6222 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6223 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6225 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6227 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6228 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6230 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6231 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6233 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6235 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6236 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6238 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6239 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6240 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6241 of weak definition in ld.so.
6243 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6244 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6246 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6247 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6251 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6254 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6255 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6257 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6258 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6260 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6261 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6263 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6264 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6265 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6267 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6268 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6270 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6271 implementation of regex.
6273 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6276 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6277 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6279 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6280 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6281 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6283 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6284 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6286 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6287 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6288 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6290 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6291 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6293 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6294 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6297 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6301 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6302 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6304 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6305 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6309 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6310 128-bit long double format.
6312 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6313 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6315 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6317 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6319 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6322 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6323 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6325 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6329 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6330 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6332 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6333 support Unicode 3.1.
6335 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6336 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6338 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6340 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6341 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6342 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6344 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6345 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6347 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6348 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6350 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6354 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6355 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6356 in float, double, and long double format.
6358 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6359 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6360 128-bit long double format.
6362 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6363 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6364 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6365 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6367 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6368 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6369 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6371 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6372 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6374 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6375 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6377 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6378 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6379 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6381 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6382 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6384 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6385 of functions for Linux/x86.
6387 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6391 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6392 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6393 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6394 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6395 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6396 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6399 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6400 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6402 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6403 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6404 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6405 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6407 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6412 only lists the names of the supported locales
6416 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6417 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6421 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6422 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6423 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6424 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6425 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6427 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6429 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6431 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6433 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6434 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6435 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6437 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6438 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6440 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6441 changed from the default "C" locale.
6443 * The usual bug fixes.
6447 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6448 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6451 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6453 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6455 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6456 obviously requires a database library being available.
6458 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6460 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6462 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6463 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6465 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6467 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6468 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6471 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6472 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6473 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6475 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6476 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6478 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6479 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6480 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6482 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6483 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6484 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6485 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6487 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6488 structures for the wide character tables.
6490 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6492 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6494 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6496 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6499 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6501 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6503 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6505 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6507 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6509 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6510 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6511 implemented for Linux.
6513 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6514 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6515 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6518 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6521 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6535 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6537 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6539 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6541 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6543 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6545 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6547 * Update timezone data files.
6549 * lots of charmaps corrections
6551 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6556 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6557 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6558 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6559 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6560 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6561 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6563 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6564 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6566 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6569 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6570 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6572 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6574 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6577 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6579 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6580 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6582 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6585 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6586 functions from ISO C 9X.
6588 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6589 real valued functions.
6591 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6593 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6595 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6597 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6599 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6601 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6603 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6605 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6606 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6608 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6609 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6613 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6615 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6617 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6619 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6621 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6623 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6625 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6626 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6629 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6630 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6632 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6634 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6636 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6637 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6639 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6641 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6644 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6645 latest draft standards.
6647 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6649 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6650 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6651 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6652 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6653 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6654 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6655 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6656 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6657 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6658 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6659 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6660 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6661 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6662 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6663 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6664 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6665 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6666 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6667 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6668 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6670 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6671 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6672 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6673 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6674 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6681 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6682 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6683 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6684 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6685 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6687 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6688 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6689 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6690 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6691 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6692 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6696 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6697 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6703 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6704 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6705 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6706 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6708 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6709 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6710 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6720 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6721 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6723 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6724 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6729 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6730 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6733 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6734 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6738 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6739 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6741 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6742 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6743 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6745 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6746 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6750 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6751 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6755 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6756 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6757 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6758 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6759 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6761 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6762 ferror_locked REMOVED
6763 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6764 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6765 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6766 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6767 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6768 fflush_locked REMOVED
6772 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6773 fileno_locked REMOVED
6785 fputc_locked REMOVED
6786 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6787 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6792 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6796 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6798 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6799 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6803 getchar_locked REMOVED
6805 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6806 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6808 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6809 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6810 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6811 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6812 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6813 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6814 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6815 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6816 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6817 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6818 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6819 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6820 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6821 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6823 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6824 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6825 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6826 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6827 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6828 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6829 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6830 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6831 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6832 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6833 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6834 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6835 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6836 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6837 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6838 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6839 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6840 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6841 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6842 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6843 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6844 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6845 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6846 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6847 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6848 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6853 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6854 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6855 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6856 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6857 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6859 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6860 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6863 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6867 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6868 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6869 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6870 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6871 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6872 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6873 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6874 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6878 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6880 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6881 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6884 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6885 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6886 profil_counter REMOVED
6887 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6888 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6889 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6890 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6892 putchar_locked REMOVED
6893 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6895 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6896 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6900 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6901 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6902 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6903 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6905 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6906 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6908 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6909 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6910 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6912 sendfile NEW: kernel
6913 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6914 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6915 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6917 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6918 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6919 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6920 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6921 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6922 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6923 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6924 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6925 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6929 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6930 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6931 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6932 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6933 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6934 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6935 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6936 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6937 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6938 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6939 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6940 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6941 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6945 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6946 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6948 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6949 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6950 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6951 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6952 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6953 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6955 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6956 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6957 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6958 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6959 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6960 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6961 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6963 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6964 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6965 write_profiling REMOVED
6966 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6967 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6968 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6969 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6970 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6971 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6972 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6973 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6974 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6975 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6976 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6977 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6978 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6979 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6980 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6981 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6992 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6994 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6996 * rewrite of cbrt function
6998 * update of timezone data
7012 * add atoll function
7014 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7016 * fix math functions
7020 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7022 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7024 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7025 the ELF dynamic loader.
7027 * support for parallel builds is improved
7031 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7032 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7035 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7036 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7037 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7038 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7039 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7040 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7041 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7042 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7043 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7044 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7045 files in the ELF format.
7047 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7048 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7050 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7051 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7052 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7053 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7054 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7055 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7056 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7057 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7058 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7059 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7060 about dynamically linked binaries.
7062 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7063 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7064 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7065 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7066 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7068 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7069 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7070 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7071 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7072 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7074 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7076 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7077 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7078 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7079 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7080 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7081 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7082 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7083 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7084 NSS services available.
7086 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7087 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7088 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7090 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7091 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7092 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7094 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7095 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7096 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7097 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7099 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7100 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7101 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7103 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7104 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7105 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7107 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7108 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7110 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7111 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7112 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7113 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7115 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7116 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7117 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7119 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7120 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7121 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7122 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7123 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7124 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7125 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7126 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7128 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7129 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7130 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7131 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7132 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7133 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7134 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7136 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7137 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7138 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7139 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7140 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7141 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7143 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7144 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7146 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7147 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7148 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7150 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7152 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7153 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7154 their use is discouraged.
7156 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7157 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7159 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7160 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7162 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7163 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7165 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7168 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7169 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7170 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7171 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7172 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7174 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7175 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7176 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7177 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7179 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7180 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7182 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7183 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7184 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7185 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7188 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7189 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7191 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7192 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7194 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7195 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7196 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7197 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7199 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7201 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7202 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7203 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7205 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7206 for arithmetic and string handling.
7208 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7209 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7210 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7211 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7213 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7214 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7215 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7216 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7217 programs already written to use it.)
7219 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7222 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7225 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7226 a given effective group ID.
7228 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7229 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7230 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7231 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7233 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7234 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7235 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7236 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7237 doing the same thing.
7239 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7240 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7242 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7243 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7245 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7247 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7248 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7249 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7250 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7251 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7253 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7254 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7256 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7257 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7258 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7261 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7263 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7264 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7267 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7268 and writing the utmp file.
7270 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7273 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7274 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7275 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7277 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7278 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7280 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7281 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7284 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7285 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7286 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7287 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7289 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7290 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7291 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7293 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7294 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7295 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7298 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7301 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7304 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7306 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7307 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7308 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7312 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7314 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7315 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7317 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7318 want to put themselves in the background.
7320 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7321 run without an operating system.
7323 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7324 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7326 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7327 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7329 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7331 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7332 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7335 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7338 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7339 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7343 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7344 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7345 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7347 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7348 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7350 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7351 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7353 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7355 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7357 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7360 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7361 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7362 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7364 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7366 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7367 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7368 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7370 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7371 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7372 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7373 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7374 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7377 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7378 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7379 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7380 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7381 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7384 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7385 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7389 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7390 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7392 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7393 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7394 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7396 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7397 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7398 address of the last character written.
7400 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7401 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7403 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7404 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7406 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7407 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7408 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7409 you dereference this pointer.
7411 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7412 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7414 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7415 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7416 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7417 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7419 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7420 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7421 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7422 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7426 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7427 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7428 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7429 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7430 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7432 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7434 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7436 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7437 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7439 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7440 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7442 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7443 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7445 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7446 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7447 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7448 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7449 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7451 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7452 to the error code in `errno'.
7454 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7455 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7456 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7459 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7460 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7461 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7463 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7464 uniquely-named temporary file.
7468 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7469 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7470 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7472 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7475 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7476 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7478 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7482 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7483 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7484 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7485 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7487 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7488 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7489 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7491 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7492 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7494 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7495 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7496 made itself into a shared library.
7498 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7499 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7501 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7502 with limited length.
7504 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7506 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7508 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7510 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7511 function for traversing a directory tree.
7513 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7514 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7515 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7516 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7518 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7519 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7521 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7523 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7524 things to your strings.
7526 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7528 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7529 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7530 supporting those systems.
7532 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7533 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7534 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7535 configuration files.
7537 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7538 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7540 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7541 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7544 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7545 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7546 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7547 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7548 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7549 required storage is not available.
7551 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7552 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7554 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7555 latest files released from Berkeley.
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