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14 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
16 * The stdio.h functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
17 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
18 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
19 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
20 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
21 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
23 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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27 Security related changes:
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31 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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34 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
41 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
42 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
43 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
44 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
45 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
46 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
47 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
48 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
49 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
51 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
52 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
55 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
57 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
59 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
60 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
61 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
62 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
63 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
64 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
65 from a security and performance perspective.
67 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
68 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
69 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
70 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
72 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
73 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
74 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
75 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
76 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
78 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
79 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
80 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
81 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
84 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
85 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
86 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
88 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
90 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
91 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
94 * The copy_file_range function was added.
96 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
98 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
99 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
100 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
102 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
103 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
104 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
105 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
106 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
107 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
108 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
110 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
111 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
112 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
113 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
114 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
115 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
116 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
118 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
119 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
120 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
121 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
124 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
125 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
126 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
127 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
129 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
130 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
131 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
133 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
134 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
135 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
137 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
138 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
139 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
145 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
147 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
148 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
149 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
150 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
151 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
152 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
153 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
154 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
155 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
158 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
159 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
160 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
162 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
163 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
164 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
165 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
166 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
167 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
168 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
169 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
170 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
171 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
172 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
173 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
174 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
175 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
176 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
177 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
178 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
179 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
180 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
181 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
182 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
183 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
184 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
185 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
186 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
187 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
189 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
190 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
192 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
193 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
194 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
195 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
196 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
197 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
198 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
200 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
201 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
202 exp10l for these functions instead.
204 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
205 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
206 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
208 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
209 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
212 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
213 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
214 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
215 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
217 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
218 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
220 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
221 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
223 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
226 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
228 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
229 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
230 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
233 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
234 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
235 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
236 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
237 use, but predates the bits convention.
239 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
241 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
244 Security related changes:
246 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
247 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
248 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
249 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
252 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
253 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
254 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
255 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
257 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
258 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
259 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
262 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
263 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
264 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
266 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
267 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
268 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
269 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
271 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
272 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
273 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
276 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
277 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
278 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
279 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
280 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
282 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
283 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
286 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
287 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
288 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
290 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
291 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
292 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
294 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
295 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
296 small, instead of NULL.
298 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
300 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
301 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
302 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
304 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
305 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
306 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
308 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
309 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
310 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
311 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
312 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
313 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
314 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
315 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
316 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
318 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
319 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
320 width Latin characters
321 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
322 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
323 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
325 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
326 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
328 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
329 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
330 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
331 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
332 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
334 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
335 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
336 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
337 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
338 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
339 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
340 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
341 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
342 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
343 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
345 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
346 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
347 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
348 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
349 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
350 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
351 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
352 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
354 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
355 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
357 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
358 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
360 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
361 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
362 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
363 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
364 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
365 __regcall calling convention
366 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
367 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
368 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
369 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
370 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
371 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
372 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
373 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
374 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
375 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
376 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
377 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
378 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
380 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
382 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
384 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
385 consistency check failures
386 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
387 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
388 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
389 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
391 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
393 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
394 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
395 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
396 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
397 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
398 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
399 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
400 on memory allocation failure
401 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
402 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
404 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
406 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
407 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
408 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
409 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
410 instead of EAI_NODATA
411 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
412 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
413 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
414 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
416 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
417 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
418 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
419 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
420 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
421 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
422 allocation in syscall loops)
423 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
424 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
425 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
426 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
427 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
428 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
429 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
430 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
431 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
433 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
434 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
435 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
437 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
438 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
440 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
442 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
443 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
444 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
445 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
446 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
447 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
448 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
449 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
450 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
451 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
452 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
453 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
454 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
455 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
456 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
457 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
458 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
459 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
461 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
463 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
464 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
466 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
467 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
468 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
469 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
471 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
472 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
473 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
474 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
475 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
476 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
477 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
478 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
479 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
480 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
481 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
483 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
484 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
485 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
486 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
487 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
488 the svid compat wrapper
489 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
490 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
491 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
492 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
493 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
494 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
496 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
497 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
499 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
500 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
501 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
502 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
503 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
504 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
506 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
507 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
508 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
509 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
511 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
512 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
514 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
515 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
516 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
517 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
518 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
519 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
520 inside the ASCII printable range
521 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
523 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
524 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
525 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
527 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
528 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
530 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
531 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
532 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
534 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
536 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
537 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
538 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
539 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
540 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
541 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
542 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
543 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
544 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
546 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
547 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
548 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
549 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
550 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
551 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
553 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
554 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
555 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
557 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
559 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
560 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
561 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
562 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
563 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
565 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
566 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
567 modified in case of success
568 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
569 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
571 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
573 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
574 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
575 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
576 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
577 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
578 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
579 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
580 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
582 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
583 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
584 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
585 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
586 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
587 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
588 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
589 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
590 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
592 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
594 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
596 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
597 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
598 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
600 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
601 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
603 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
604 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
605 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
606 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
607 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
608 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
609 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
610 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
611 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
618 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
619 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
620 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
621 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
622 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
623 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
624 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
626 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
627 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
628 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
629 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
630 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
631 are rendered with pango, see for example:
632 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
634 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
635 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
638 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
640 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
641 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
642 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
644 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
645 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
646 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
647 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
648 object are still limited to six search domains.
650 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
651 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
652 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
654 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
655 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
657 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
658 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
659 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
660 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
662 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
663 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
664 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
665 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
667 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
668 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
669 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
670 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
672 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
673 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
674 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
676 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
677 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
678 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
679 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
681 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
682 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
683 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
684 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
685 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
687 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
688 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
689 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
690 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
691 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
692 interfaces should be used instead.
694 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
696 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
697 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
698 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
699 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
700 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
701 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
702 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
703 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
705 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
708 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
709 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
710 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
711 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
713 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
714 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
717 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
718 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
719 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
720 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
721 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
723 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
724 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
725 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
726 name service modules, to be built and installed.
728 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
729 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
730 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
731 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
733 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
734 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
736 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
737 exported by accident.
739 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
740 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
741 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
743 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
744 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
745 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
746 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
748 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
750 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
752 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
755 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
756 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
758 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
759 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
761 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
762 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
763 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
764 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
765 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
766 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
767 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
768 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
770 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
771 synced with the kernel:
773 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
774 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
776 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
777 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
778 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
780 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
781 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
783 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
785 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
786 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
789 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
791 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
792 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
794 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
795 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
796 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
797 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
798 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
800 Security related changes:
802 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
803 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
805 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
806 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
808 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
809 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
812 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
813 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
815 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
817 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
818 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
819 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
821 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
823 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
824 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
825 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
827 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
828 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
829 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
830 x86 and other generic code
831 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
832 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
834 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
835 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
836 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
837 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
838 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
839 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
840 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
842 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
843 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
844 order of 0D36 and 0D37
845 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
847 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
848 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
850 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
852 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
853 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
854 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
856 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
857 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
858 failures consistently
859 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
860 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
861 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
862 frame-pointer on i386
863 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
865 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
866 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
867 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
868 generic c code is used
869 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
870 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
872 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
874 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
875 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
877 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
878 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
879 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
880 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
881 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
882 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
883 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
884 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
885 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
886 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
888 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
890 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
891 new posix_spawn implementation
892 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
893 leads to lower CPU frequency
894 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
895 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
896 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
897 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
898 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
899 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
900 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
901 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
902 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
903 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
904 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
905 not support gethostbyname4_r
906 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
908 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
910 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
911 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
912 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
913 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
914 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
915 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
916 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
918 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
919 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
920 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
921 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
922 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
923 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
924 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
925 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
926 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
927 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
928 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
929 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
931 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
932 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
933 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
934 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
935 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
936 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
937 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
938 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
940 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
941 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
942 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
943 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
944 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
945 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
946 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
947 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
948 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
949 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
950 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
951 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
952 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
953 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
954 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
955 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
956 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
957 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
958 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
959 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
960 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
962 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
963 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
964 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
965 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
966 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
968 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
969 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
971 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
972 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
974 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
975 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
977 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
978 posix/sched_cpucount.c
979 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
980 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
982 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
983 leading to relocation crash
984 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
985 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
986 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
987 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
988 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
989 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
990 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
991 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
992 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
994 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
996 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
997 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
998 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
999 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1000 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1001 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1002 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1003 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1005 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1007 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1009 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1010 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1011 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1012 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1013 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1014 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1015 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1016 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1017 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1018 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1019 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1020 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1021 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1022 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1023 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1024 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1025 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1026 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1027 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1028 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1029 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1030 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1031 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1032 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1033 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1034 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1035 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1037 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1038 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1039 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1040 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1041 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
1046 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1047 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1048 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1051 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1052 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1053 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
1056 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1057 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1058 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1061 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1062 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1063 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1064 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1065 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1066 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1067 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1070 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1071 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1074 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1075 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1076 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1078 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1079 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1080 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1081 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1084 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
1085 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1086 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
1088 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1089 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
1090 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1091 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1092 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1093 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1094 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1095 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1096 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1097 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1098 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1101 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1103 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1105 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1106 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1107 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
1109 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1110 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1112 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1115 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1117 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
1119 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1120 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
1122 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1124 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
1125 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
1127 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1128 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1130 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1131 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1132 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1134 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1135 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1136 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1137 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1138 effects of the memory clear).
1140 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1141 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1142 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1143 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1145 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1146 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1147 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1148 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1149 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1150 if they are compiled or used with those options.
1152 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1155 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1156 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1157 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1158 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1159 as large as several megabytes.
1161 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1162 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1165 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1166 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1167 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1168 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1169 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1170 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1171 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1173 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1174 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1175 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1176 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1178 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
1179 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1180 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1183 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1184 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1185 They were already unimplemented.
1187 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1188 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1189 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1190 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1192 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1193 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1194 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1195 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1196 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1198 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1199 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1200 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1201 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1202 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1204 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1205 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1206 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1207 did not reflect that.
1209 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1210 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1211 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1212 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1213 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1214 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1215 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1218 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1219 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1220 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1221 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1223 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1224 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1225 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1226 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1228 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1229 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1232 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1233 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1236 Security related changes:
1238 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
1239 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1240 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1241 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
1242 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
1244 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1245 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1246 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1247 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1250 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1252 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1253 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1255 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1256 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1257 before it started waiting
1258 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1259 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1260 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1261 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1263 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1264 library linked with pthread
1265 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1266 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1267 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1268 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1269 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1270 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1271 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1273 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1275 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1276 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1277 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1278 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1279 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1280 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1281 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1282 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1283 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1285 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1286 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1287 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1288 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1289 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1290 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1291 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1292 causes a segmentation fault
1293 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1295 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1296 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1298 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1300 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1301 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1302 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1304 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1305 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1307 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1308 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1309 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1310 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1311 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1312 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1313 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1314 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1316 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1317 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1318 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1320 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1322 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1324 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1325 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1326 cause transition penalty
1327 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1328 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1329 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1330 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1331 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1333 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1335 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1336 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1337 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1338 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1339 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1340 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1342 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1344 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1345 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1346 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1347 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1348 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1349 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1350 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1351 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1352 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1353 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1354 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1355 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1356 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1357 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1359 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1360 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1361 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1362 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1363 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1364 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1365 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1366 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1367 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1368 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1369 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1370 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1371 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1372 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1373 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1374 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1375 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1376 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1378 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1379 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1380 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1381 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1382 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1384 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1385 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1386 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1387 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1388 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1389 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1390 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1392 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1393 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1394 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1395 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1396 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1400 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1401 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1402 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1403 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1404 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1407 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1408 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1409 been included in previous releases.
1411 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1412 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1414 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1415 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1416 instead of “union wait”.
1418 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1419 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1420 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1421 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1422 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1423 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1424 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1426 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1429 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1430 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1433 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1434 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1435 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1436 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1437 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1440 Security related changes:
1442 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1443 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1444 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1446 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1447 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1448 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1449 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
1451 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1452 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1453 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1455 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1456 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1457 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1459 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1460 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1461 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1462 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1464 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1466 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1467 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1469 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1470 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1471 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1472 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1473 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1474 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1475 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1476 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1478 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1479 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1480 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1481 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1482 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1483 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1485 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1487 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1488 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1489 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1490 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1491 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1492 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1493 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1494 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1495 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1496 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1497 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1499 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1500 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1501 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1502 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1503 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1504 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1506 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1507 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1509 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1510 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1511 Romanian locale data
1512 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1514 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1515 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1517 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1518 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1519 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1520 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1522 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1524 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1525 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1526 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1527 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1528 when using RTLD_NEXT
1529 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1530 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1531 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1532 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1533 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1534 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1535 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1536 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1537 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1539 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1540 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1541 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1542 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1544 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1546 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1548 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1549 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1550 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1551 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1552 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1553 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1555 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1556 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1558 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1559 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1561 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1563 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1565 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1566 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1567 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1568 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1569 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1570 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1571 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1572 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1573 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1574 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1575 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1576 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1577 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1578 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1580 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1582 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1583 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1584 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1585 response to getaddrinfo
1586 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1587 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1588 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1589 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1590 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1591 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1593 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1594 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1595 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1597 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1598 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1599 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1600 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1602 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1603 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1604 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1606 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1607 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1608 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1609 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1610 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1611 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1612 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1613 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1615 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1616 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1617 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1619 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1620 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1621 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1622 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1623 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1624 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1625 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1626 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1627 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1628 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1629 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1630 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1631 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1633 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1634 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1635 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1636 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1638 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1639 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1641 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1642 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1643 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1644 AS not supporting AVX512
1645 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1647 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1648 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1650 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1651 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1652 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1653 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1654 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1656 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1657 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1659 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1660 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1661 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1662 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1663 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1664 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1665 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1666 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1667 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1669 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1670 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1671 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1672 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1673 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1674 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1675 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1676 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1677 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1678 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1679 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1680 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1681 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1683 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1684 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1685 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1686 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1687 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1689 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1690 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1692 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1693 "invalid" exceptions
1694 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1695 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1696 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1697 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1698 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1699 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1700 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1701 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1702 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
1706 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1707 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1708 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1709 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1710 89, 16061, and 18568.
1712 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1713 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1714 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1715 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1716 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1717 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1718 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1720 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1721 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1722 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1724 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1725 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1726 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1727 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1728 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1729 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1730 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1732 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1733 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1734 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1735 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1736 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
1737 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
1738 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1741 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1742 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1743 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1744 independent of the GNU C Library.
1746 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1747 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1749 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1750 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1751 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1752 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1753 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1756 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1757 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
1759 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1760 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1761 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1762 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1763 defining their own copy.
1765 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1766 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1767 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1769 Security related changes:
1771 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1772 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1774 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1775 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1776 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1777 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1780 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1781 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1783 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1784 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1786 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1787 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
1788 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
1790 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1791 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1792 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1793 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1794 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1795 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1796 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1797 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1798 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1799 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1800 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1801 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1802 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1804 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1806 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1807 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1808 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1809 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1810 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1811 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1813 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1814 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1815 overflow/underflow errors
1816 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1818 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1819 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1820 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1821 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1822 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1823 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1825 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1826 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1827 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1828 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1829 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1830 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1831 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1832 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1833 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1835 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1837 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1838 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1839 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1841 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1842 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1843 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1844 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1845 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1847 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1848 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1850 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1851 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1852 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1853 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1854 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1855 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1856 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1857 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1859 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1860 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1861 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1862 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1863 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1865 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1866 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1868 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1869 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1870 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1871 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1872 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1874 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1875 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1876 (related to lock elision)
1877 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1878 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1879 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1880 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1882 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1883 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1884 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1885 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1886 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1887 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1888 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1889 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1890 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1891 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1892 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1893 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1894 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1895 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1896 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1897 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1898 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1899 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1900 contains a vector instruction exception.
1901 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1902 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1904 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1905 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1906 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1907 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1908 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1910 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1912 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1913 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1915 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1916 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1917 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1918 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1919 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1921 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1922 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1923 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1924 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1925 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1926 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1927 statically too large
1928 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1929 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1930 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1931 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1932 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1933 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1934 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1935 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1936 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1938 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1939 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1940 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1941 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1942 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1943 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1944 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1946 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1947 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1948 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1949 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1951 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1952 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1953 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1954 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1955 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1956 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1958 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1959 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1960 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1961 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1962 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1963 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1965 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1966 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1967 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1968 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1969 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1970 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1971 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1972 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1974 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1975 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1976 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1977 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1978 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1979 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1980 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1981 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1982 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1984 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1986 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1987 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1988 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1990 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1991 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1992 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1993 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1994 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1995 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1996 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1997 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1998 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1999 pthread_setaffinity_np
2000 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2001 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2002 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2003 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2004 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2006 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2007 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2008 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2009 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2010 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2011 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2012 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2014 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2015 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2016 for C99-based standards
2017 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2018 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2020 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2021 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2022 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2024 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2025 "inexact" exceptions
2026 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2028 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2029 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2030 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2031 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2033 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2034 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2035 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2036 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2037 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2038 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2039 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2040 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2041 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2042 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2044 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2045 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2046 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2047 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2049 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2050 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2051 error on 32-bit architectures
2052 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2053 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2054 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2055 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2056 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2057 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2058 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2059 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2060 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2062 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2064 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2065 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2066 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2067 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2069 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
2073 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2075 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
2076 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2077 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2078 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2079 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2080 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2081 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2082 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2083 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2084 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2085 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2086 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2087 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2088 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2089 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2090 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2091 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2092 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
2093 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2094 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2096 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2097 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2099 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2100 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2101 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2102 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2103 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2104 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
2106 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2107 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2108 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2109 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2110 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2112 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2113 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2114 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2116 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2117 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2118 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2121 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2122 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2123 condition in some applications.
2125 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
2126 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2128 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2129 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
2130 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2131 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
2132 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
2134 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2135 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2136 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2137 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
2139 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2140 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2141 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
2143 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2144 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2146 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2147 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2148 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2150 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2151 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2152 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
2156 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2158 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
2159 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2160 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2161 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2162 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2163 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2164 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2165 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2166 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2167 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2170 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2171 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2172 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2173 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2176 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2177 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2178 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2179 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2180 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2181 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
2183 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2185 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2186 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
2187 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
2189 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2190 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2191 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2192 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2193 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2194 effects being visible outside transactions.
2196 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2197 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2199 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2201 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2202 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
2203 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
2204 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2205 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
2207 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2208 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2210 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2211 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2214 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2215 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2216 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2218 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2219 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2221 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
2223 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2224 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2225 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2226 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
2228 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2229 with newer versions of bison.
2231 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2232 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2233 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2234 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2235 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2236 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2237 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2238 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2239 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2240 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2241 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2242 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2243 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2245 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2246 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2247 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2248 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2249 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
2253 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2255 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2256 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2257 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2258 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2259 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2260 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2261 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2262 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2263 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2264 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2265 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2266 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2267 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2268 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2269 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
2271 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2272 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2273 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2274 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2275 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
2276 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
2277 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2278 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2279 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2280 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2282 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2283 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2284 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2285 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2286 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
2288 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2290 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2291 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2293 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2294 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2295 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2296 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2297 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2298 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2300 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2303 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2304 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2305 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2306 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2307 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2308 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2309 test macros defined.
2311 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2313 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2314 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2315 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2316 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2317 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2318 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2321 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2322 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2323 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2324 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2327 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2328 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2329 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
2331 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2332 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2333 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2334 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
2336 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2337 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2338 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2339 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2340 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2341 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2342 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2345 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2346 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2347 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2348 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2349 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2350 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2351 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2352 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2353 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
2355 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2356 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2357 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2358 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2359 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
2360 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
2362 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2363 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2364 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2365 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
2369 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2371 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2372 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2373 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2374 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2375 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2376 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2377 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2378 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2379 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2380 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
2381 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2382 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2383 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2384 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2385 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
2386 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2387 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2388 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
2390 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2391 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2393 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2394 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2395 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
2396 extension which uses __block.
2398 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2399 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2400 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2401 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2402 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2404 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2405 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2406 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2407 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2410 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2411 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2412 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2413 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2414 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
2416 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2417 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2418 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2420 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2421 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2422 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2425 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2426 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2428 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
2429 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
2431 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2433 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2436 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
2438 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2440 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2441 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2442 for which the C library was built.
2444 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2445 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2446 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2447 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2448 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2449 in the following circumstances:
2451 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2453 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2454 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2456 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2457 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2459 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2460 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
2462 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2464 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2465 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2467 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
2469 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
2471 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
2473 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2474 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2475 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2476 disable some of those declarations.
2478 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
2479 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2480 that did nothing) has also been removed.
2482 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2483 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
2485 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2486 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2487 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2488 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2489 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2490 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2491 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2492 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2493 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2494 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2495 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2496 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2497 require recompilation.
2501 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2503 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
2504 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2505 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
2506 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2507 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2508 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2509 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2510 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2511 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2512 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2513 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2514 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2515 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2518 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2519 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2520 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2521 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2522 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2523 understands and accepts the risks.
2525 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2528 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2529 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
2531 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2532 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2533 destructor calls to glibc.
2535 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2538 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2539 non-x86 architectures.
2541 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2543 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2545 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2548 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2550 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2553 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2554 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2556 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2558 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2559 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
2561 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2562 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
2564 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2565 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2566 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2568 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2569 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2570 attributes of a process.
2572 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2573 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2574 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2575 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2578 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2579 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2581 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2585 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2587 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
2588 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2589 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2590 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2591 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2592 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2593 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2594 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2595 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2596 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2597 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2598 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2599 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2600 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2601 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
2603 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2605 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2606 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
2608 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2609 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2611 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2613 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2614 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2616 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2618 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2619 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2620 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2622 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2623 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2625 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2626 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2628 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2629 can be used with is 2.6.16.
2631 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2632 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2634 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2635 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
2636 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2637 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
2639 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2640 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2642 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
2643 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
2646 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2647 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2648 information in --help and --version output.
2650 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2651 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2652 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2654 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2655 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2656 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2657 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2658 when the mode is enabled.
2660 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2661 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2662 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2663 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2664 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2665 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2666 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
2668 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2673 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2675 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2676 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2677 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2678 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2679 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2680 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2681 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2682 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2683 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2684 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2685 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2686 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2687 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2688 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2689 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2690 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2691 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2692 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2693 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2694 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2695 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2696 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2699 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2700 configuring glibc with:
2701 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2702 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2703 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2707 + define static_assert
2709 + do not declare gets
2711 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2713 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2714 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2715 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2718 + timespec_get added
2720 + uchar.h support added
2722 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2724 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2726 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
2728 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
2730 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2731 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2733 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2734 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2736 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2737 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2738 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2739 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2740 existing applications.
2742 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
2743 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2746 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2747 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2748 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2750 * New locales: mag_IN
2752 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2753 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2754 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2755 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2756 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
2758 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2760 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2763 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2765 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2766 without a previously built glibc.
2768 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2769 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2771 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2772 now supported for ARM processors.
2774 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2775 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2776 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2778 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
2780 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2781 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2782 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2783 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
2785 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2786 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2787 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2788 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2790 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2791 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2792 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2793 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2794 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2796 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2797 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2798 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2799 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
2803 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2805 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2806 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2807 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2808 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2809 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2810 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2811 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
2813 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2814 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2816 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2817 and support for initgroups lookups.
2818 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2820 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2821 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2823 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2824 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2826 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2827 on x86-32 and x86-64.
2828 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2830 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
2831 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2833 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2834 for x86-64 and x86-32.
2835 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2837 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2838 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2840 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2841 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2843 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2846 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2847 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2849 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2850 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2852 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2853 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2855 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
2857 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2858 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2860 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2861 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2863 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
2867 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2869 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
2870 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
2871 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
2872 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
2873 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2874 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2875 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
2876 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2877 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
2878 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
2880 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2881 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2882 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
2883 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
2885 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
2886 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2887 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
2888 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2890 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
2891 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
2893 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
2894 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
2896 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
2898 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2899 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2901 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2902 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2903 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2904 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
2908 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2910 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2911 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2912 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2913 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2916 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
2918 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
2920 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2921 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
2922 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2926 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2928 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2929 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2930 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2931 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
2932 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2933 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2934 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
2935 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
2937 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
2939 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2941 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2943 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2944 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2945 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2947 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2948 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2949 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2950 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2951 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2953 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
2957 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2959 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2960 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2961 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2962 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2963 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2964 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2966 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
2968 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2970 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
2971 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2973 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
2974 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2976 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
2978 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
2979 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
2980 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
2981 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2983 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
2984 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2986 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2988 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2990 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2991 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2993 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2994 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2996 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2997 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2999 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3000 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3001 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3002 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3003 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3004 necessity is every process again.
3005 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3007 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3008 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3010 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3011 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3013 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3014 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3015 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3017 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
3021 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3023 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3024 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3025 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3026 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3027 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3029 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
3030 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3032 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
3033 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3035 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
3036 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
3038 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3041 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
3042 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3044 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3045 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3047 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3048 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3050 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3051 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3053 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3054 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3055 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3057 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
3059 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
3060 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3062 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3063 and extend existing format specifiers.
3064 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3066 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3067 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3069 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3070 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3071 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3072 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3073 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3074 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3078 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3080 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3081 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3082 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3083 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3084 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3086 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
3087 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3089 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3090 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
3092 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3093 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3095 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3096 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3097 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3099 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3100 Implemented by Eric Blake.
3102 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
3104 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
3105 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3107 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3108 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3109 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3110 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3112 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3113 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3115 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3117 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3119 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
3123 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3125 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3126 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3127 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3128 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3129 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3130 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3131 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3133 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
3135 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
3137 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3138 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3140 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3142 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3143 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3145 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3146 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3148 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3149 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3150 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3152 * Faster memset for x86-64.
3153 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3155 * Faster memcpy on x86.
3156 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3158 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3159 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3161 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
3162 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3166 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3168 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3169 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3170 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3171 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3172 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3174 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3175 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3177 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3179 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3180 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3181 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3183 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3184 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3186 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
3187 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3189 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3191 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3192 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3194 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3195 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3197 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3198 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3200 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3202 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3203 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3205 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3206 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3209 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3210 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3214 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3216 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3217 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3218 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3219 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3220 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3221 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3222 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3225 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
3227 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3229 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3233 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3235 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3236 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3237 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3238 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3239 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3240 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3241 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3242 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3243 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3245 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
3246 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3247 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3249 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3250 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3252 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
3254 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
3256 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3257 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3258 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
3259 site might have problems with the default behavior.
3260 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3262 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
3263 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3264 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3265 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3267 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3270 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3272 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3275 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3277 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3278 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
3282 * More overflow detection functions.
3284 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3285 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
3287 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3288 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3289 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3290 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3291 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3292 by Masahide Washizawa.
3294 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3295 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3297 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3298 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3299 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3300 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
3302 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3303 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3305 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3307 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3308 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3309 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3311 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3312 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3314 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3315 for compatibility with some other systems.
3317 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
3321 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3323 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3324 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3325 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3326 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3327 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3328 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3330 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3332 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3334 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
3338 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3340 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3341 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3342 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3343 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3345 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3349 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3352 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3353 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3354 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3356 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3357 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3359 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
3361 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3363 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3364 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3367 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3368 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
3369 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3371 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
3372 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3374 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3375 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3376 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3377 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3379 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3380 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3381 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
3382 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3384 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3385 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3386 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3387 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3388 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
3392 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3393 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3395 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3396 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
3398 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
3399 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3401 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3402 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3404 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3407 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
3410 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3415 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3416 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3417 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3418 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3419 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3420 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3421 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3422 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3423 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3425 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3426 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3427 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3429 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
3431 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3432 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
3434 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3435 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3437 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
3439 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3440 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
3442 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3443 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3444 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3445 of weak definition in ld.so.
3447 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3448 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3450 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3451 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
3455 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3458 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3459 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
3461 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
3462 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
3464 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3465 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
3467 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
3468 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3469 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3471 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3472 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3474 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3475 implementation of regex.
3477 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3480 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3481 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
3483 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3484 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3485 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
3487 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
3488 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
3490 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3491 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3492 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
3494 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3495 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3497 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3498 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3501 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3505 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3506 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3508 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3509 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
3513 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3514 128-bit long double format.
3516 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3517 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
3519 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
3521 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3523 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3526 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3527 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
3529 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
3533 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
3534 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
3536 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3537 support Unicode 3.1.
3539 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3540 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
3542 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
3544 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
3545 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3546 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3548 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3549 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3551 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3552 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
3554 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
3558 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
3559 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3560 in float, double, and long double format.
3562 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
3563 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3564 128-bit long double format.
3566 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3567 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3568 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3569 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3571 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3572 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3573 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3575 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3576 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
3578 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3579 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
3581 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3582 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3583 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
3585 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3586 family of functions for Linux/S390.
3588 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3589 of functions for Linux/x86.
3591 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
3595 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
3596 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3597 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3598 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3599 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3600 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3603 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3604 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3606 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3607 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3608 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3609 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3611 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3616 only lists the names of the supported locales
3620 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3621 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3625 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3626 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3627 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3628 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3629 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3631 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3633 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3635 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
3637 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3638 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3639 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
3641 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3642 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3644 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3645 changed from the default "C" locale.
3647 * The usual bug fixes.
3651 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3652 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3655 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3657 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
3659 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3660 obviously requires a database library being available.
3662 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3664 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
3666 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3667 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3669 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3671 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3672 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3675 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3676 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3677 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
3679 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
3680 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3682 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3683 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3684 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3686 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3687 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3688 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3689 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3691 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3692 structures for the wide character tables.
3694 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3696 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
3698 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3700 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3703 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3705 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3707 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3709 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3711 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3713 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3714 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3715 implemented for Linux.
3717 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3718 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3719 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3722 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3725 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
3739 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3741 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3743 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
3745 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3747 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
3749 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
3751 * Update timezone data files.
3753 * lots of charmaps corrections
3755 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
3760 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3761 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3762 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3763 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3764 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3765 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3767 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
3768 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3770 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
3773 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3774 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
3776 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
3778 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
3781 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
3783 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3784 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
3786 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3789 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
3790 functions from ISO C 9X.
3792 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3793 real valued functions.
3795 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
3797 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3799 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
3801 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
3803 * Optimized string functions have been added.
3805 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
3807 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3809 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3810 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3812 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3813 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3817 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
3819 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
3821 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
3823 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3825 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3827 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
3829 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3830 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
3833 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3834 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
3836 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
3838 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
3840 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3841 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3843 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
3845 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3848 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3849 latest draft standards.
3851 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3853 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3854 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3855 addseverity NEW: Unix98
3856 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
3857 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3858 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3859 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3860 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3861 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3862 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3863 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3864 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3865 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3866 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
3867 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3868 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3869 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
3870 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3871 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3872 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3874 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3875 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3876 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3877 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3878 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3885 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3886 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3887 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3888 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3889 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3891 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3892 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3893 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3894 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3895 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3896 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
3900 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3901 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3907 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3908 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3909 clearerr_locked REMOVED
3910 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3912 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3913 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3914 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3924 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3925 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3927 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3928 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3933 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3934 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3937 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3938 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3942 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3943 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3945 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3946 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
3947 endutxent NEW: Unix98
3949 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3950 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3954 fattach NEW: STREAMS
3955 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3959 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3960 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3961 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3962 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3963 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3965 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3966 ferror_locked REMOVED
3967 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3968 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3969 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3970 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3971 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3972 fflush_locked REMOVED
3976 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3977 fileno_locked REMOVED
3989 fputc_locked REMOVED
3990 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3991 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3996 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4000 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4002 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4003 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4007 getchar_locked REMOVED
4009 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4010 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4012 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
4013 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
4014 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4015 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4016 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4017 getutxent NEW: Unix98
4018 getutxid NEW: Unix98
4019 getutxline NEW: Unix98
4020 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4021 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4022 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4023 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4024 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4025 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4027 iconv_close NEW: iconv
4028 iconv_open NEW: iconv
4029 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4030 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4031 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4032 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4033 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4034 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4035 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4036 isastream NEW: STREAMS
4037 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
4038 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4039 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4040 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4041 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4042 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4043 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4044 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4045 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4046 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
4047 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4048 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4049 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4050 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4051 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4052 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4057 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4058 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4059 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4060 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4061 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4063 makecontext NEW: Unix98
4064 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4067 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4071 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4072 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4073 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4074 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4075 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
4076 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4077 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4078 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
4082 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
4084 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4085 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4088 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4089 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4090 profil_counter REMOVED
4091 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4092 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4093 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4094 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4096 putchar_locked REMOVED
4097 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4099 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4100 pututxline NEW: Unix98
4104 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4105 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4106 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4107 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4109 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4110 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4112 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4113 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4114 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4116 sendfile NEW: kernel
4117 setcontext NEW: Unix98
4118 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4119 setutxent NEW: Unix98
4121 sigignore NEW: Unix98
4122 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4123 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4124 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4125 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4126 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4127 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4128 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4129 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4133 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
4134 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4135 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4136 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
4137 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
4138 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4139 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4140 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4141 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4142 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4143 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4144 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4145 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4149 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4150 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4152 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4153 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
4154 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4155 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
4156 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
4157 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
4159 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4160 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4161 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4162 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4163 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4164 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4165 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4167 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4168 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4169 write_profiling REMOVED
4170 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4171 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4172 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4173 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4174 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4175 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4176 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4177 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4178 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4179 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4180 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4181 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4182 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
4183 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
4184 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4185 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4196 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4198 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4200 * rewrite of cbrt function
4202 * update of timezone data
4216 * add atoll function
4218 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
4220 * fix math functions
4224 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4226 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
4228 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4229 the ELF dynamic loader.
4231 * support for parallel builds is improved
4235 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4236 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4239 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4240 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4241 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4242 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
4243 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4244 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
4245 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4246 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4247 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
4248 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4249 files in the ELF format.
4251 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4252 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4254 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
4255 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4256 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4257 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4258 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4259 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4260 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4261 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
4262 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4263 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4264 about dynamically linked binaries.
4266 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4267 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
4268 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4269 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4270 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
4272 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
4273 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4274 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4275 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4276 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4278 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
4280 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4281 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
4282 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4283 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4284 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4285 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4286 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4287 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4288 NSS services available.
4290 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4291 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4292 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4294 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4295 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4296 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4298 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4299 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4300 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4301 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4303 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4304 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4305 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4307 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4308 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4309 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4311 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4312 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4314 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
4315 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
4316 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
4317 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4319 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4320 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4321 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
4323 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
4324 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4325 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4326 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
4327 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4328 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
4329 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
4330 the header file <printf.h> for details.
4332 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4333 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4334 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4335 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4336 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4337 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4338 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
4340 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4341 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4342 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4343 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4344 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4345 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4347 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4348 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4350 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4351 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4352 NSS scheme used in glibc.
4354 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4356 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4357 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4358 their use is discouraged.
4360 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4361 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
4363 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4364 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
4366 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4367 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4369 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4372 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4373 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
4374 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4375 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4376 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
4378 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4379 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4380 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4381 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
4383 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4384 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4386 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4387 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4388 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4389 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4392 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4393 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4395 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4396 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4398 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
4399 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
4400 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4401 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
4403 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4405 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4406 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4407 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4409 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4410 for arithmetic and string handling.
4412 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
4413 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4414 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4415 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4417 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4418 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4419 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4420 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4421 programs already written to use it.)
4423 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4426 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4429 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4430 a given effective group ID.
4432 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4433 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4434 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4435 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4437 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
4438 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
4439 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4440 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4441 doing the same thing.
4443 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4444 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4446 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
4447 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
4449 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4451 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4452 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4453 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
4454 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
4455 `-ldb' to get these functions.
4457 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4458 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
4460 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
4461 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4462 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4465 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4467 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4468 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4471 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4472 and writing the utmp file.
4474 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4477 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4478 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4479 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4481 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4482 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4484 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4485 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4488 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4489 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4490 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4491 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4493 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4494 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4495 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4497 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4498 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4499 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4502 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4505 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4508 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4510 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4511 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4512 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
4516 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4518 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4519 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4521 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4522 want to put themselves in the background.
4524 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4525 run without an operating system.
4527 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4528 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4530 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4531 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4533 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4535 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4536 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4539 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4542 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4543 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4547 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4548 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4549 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4551 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4552 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4554 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4555 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4557 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4559 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4561 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4564 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4565 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4566 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4568 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4570 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4571 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4572 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4574 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4575 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4576 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4577 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4578 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4581 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4582 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4583 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4584 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4585 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4588 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4589 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4593 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4594 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4596 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4597 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4598 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4600 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4601 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4602 address of the last character written.
4604 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4605 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4607 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4608 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4610 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4611 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4612 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4613 you dereference this pointer.
4615 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4616 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4618 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4619 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4620 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4621 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4623 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4624 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4625 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4626 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4630 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4631 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4632 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4633 in Emacs or the `info' program.
4634 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
4636 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4638 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4640 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4641 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4643 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4644 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4646 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4647 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4649 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4650 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4651 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4652 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4653 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4655 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4656 to the error code in `errno'.
4658 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4659 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4660 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4663 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4664 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4665 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4667 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4668 uniquely-named temporary file.
4672 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4673 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4674 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4676 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4679 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4680 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4682 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4686 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4687 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4688 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4689 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4691 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4692 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4693 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4695 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4696 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4698 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4699 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4700 made itself into a shared library.
4702 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4703 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4705 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4706 with limited length.
4708 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4710 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4712 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4714 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4715 function for traversing a directory tree.
4717 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4718 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4719 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4720 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4722 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4723 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4725 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4727 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4728 things to your strings.
4730 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4732 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4733 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4734 supporting those systems.
4736 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4737 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4738 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4739 configuration files.
4741 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4742 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4744 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
4745 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4748 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4749 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4750 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4751 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4752 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4753 required storage is not available.
4755 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4756 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
4758 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4759 latest files released from Berkeley.
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